Japan Marks - Inoue Ryousai

Japan Marks - Inoue Ryosai & Ryosai-yaki

INOUE RYOSAI 1st (初代井上良齋) (1825-1899) (Age 72)

INOUE RYOSAI 2nd (二代井上良齋) (1845-1905) (Age 51)

INOUE RYOSAI 3rd (三代井上良齋) (1888-1971)

RYOSAI-YAKI (良齋焼)

IMADO-YAKI


(二代井上良齋)	(二代井上良齋)	(二代井上良齋)

There are three generations of Inoue Ryosai and I have updated this webpage.

According to Japanese resources, Sumida ware, specifically Ryosai Inoue ware, was exported to the West from Yokohama in 1865 when business tycoon Shimada began trading through U.S. importer, A. A. Vantine.

The artist Inoue Ryosai is well-known in the West for his Sumida-yaki but the artist was very proficent in creating outstanding porcelain works of art in bas relief and delicate hand painting. Some of his impressive porcelain works are featured on this webpage. Inoue created bas relief closely resembling the reknown artist Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu. At first when I saw the eagle vase featured below, I thought it was made by Kozan and was surprised to learn it was made by Inoue, an amazing bas relief work of art.


(初代井上良齋)	(二代井上良齋)	(二代井上良齋)

A Book of Pottery Marks, W. Percival Jervis with Japanese marks compiled by Mr. K. T. Tetsuka, 1897.
Noted as mark #8-9. Ryosai (Riosai) Inoue (Inouye), of Sumida, Tokio (Tokyo).-Both are Impressed marks.

井上 INOUE

良齋 RYOUSAI


(初代井上良齋)	(初代井上良齋)	(二代井上良齋)

Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edward Morse, 1900.

INOUE RYOSAI (Case 35)

This potter was making tea-vessels in Imado in 1870-80, and at that time his work was known under the general name of Imado. Within recent years he has produced some remarkable and beautiful glazes on a hard body following Chinese models. Curious bowls made to look old, and bearing the mark Hompo (?) in obscure characters, are said to have been made by this potter within twenty years.

4144—4149*. Bowl and tire-vessels, flower-vase, etc., with marks Inoue Ryosai (4144*, 4146, 4148*) and Dai Nippon Tokyo Inoue Ryosai (4145) (imp.). c1875-1880.

4150, 4151. Bowls. Hompo (imp.). c1885.

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MORSE MARKS #4144, 4146, 4148, 4149 - INOUE RYOSAI (井上良齋)
MORSE MARKS #4145 - DAI NIHON TOKYO INOUE RYOSAI (大日本東京井上良齋)
MORSE MARKS #4150 - RYOSAI (良齋)

Signatures of Inoue Ryosai Family

SEAL SCRIPT SIGNATURES

IMPRESSED SHIKAKU SQUARE SIGNATURES


大日本 DAI NIHON 東京 TOKYO 井上 INOUE 良齋 RYOSAI	大日本 DAI NIHON 東京 TOKYO 井上 INOUE 良齋 RYOSAI	大日本 DAI NIHON 東京 TOKYO 井上 INOUE 良齋 RYOSAI



TOKYO INOUE RYOSAI* HYOCHIEN HAND PAINTED BY HYOCHIEN PAINTING SHOP FOR INOUE RYOSAI Two signature marks: Impressed - Tokyo Inoue Ryosai (東京井上良齋) Red - Hyo for Hyochien (瓢) *Note: This is the signature mark for Inoue Ryosai.

IMPRESSED SIGNATURES ON URI GOURD PLAQUE

東京 TOKYO
良齋 RYOSAI

良齋 RYOSAI

IMPRESSED SIGNATURES ON PLAQUE

良齋 RYOSAI

IMPRESSED SIGNATURES

良齋焼 RYOSAI-YAKI

良齋 RYOSAI

HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURES FOUND ON PORCELAIN

良齋 RYOSAI

References

Japanese resources.

World's Columbian Exposition, 1893: Official Catalogue, Volumes 7-12, Moses Purnell Handy, 1893.

Listed under Department H - Manufacturers, Japan, Group 91 - Ceramics & Mosaics, #452. Jihei Inoue, Tokyo. Stoneware. 575. Japanese Art: Japanese books and albums of prints in colour in the National Art Library, South Kensington, National Art Library (Great Britain), Great Britain. Dept. of Science and Art, 1893.

Listed under Section II. - Painting and Sculpture. --- Bumpo Gwafu. Drawings from Life, Plants, etc. Engraved by Inouye Jihei. Cuts, tinted. Vols 2, 3 of a series. (10x7), 1813. O3, B. 4.

Ost-Asien, Volume 1, 1898.

Listed under Japanese Businesses under Tokyo, Business Name: Inouye Jihei, Business Address: No. 130, Hashibacho, Asakusa. Business wares: Earthenware (Faience, Pottery).

The Exhibition of the Empire of Japan, Official Ctalogue, Japan. Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, International Exposition, 1904:

Listed under Earthenware. (Palace of Varied Industries.) # 18. Inouye. Ryosai, Hashiba-eho, Asakusa, Tokio - Flower vases. Mantel ornaments. Ornamental plates. Basins. Bowls. Flower pots. Tea caddies. Handbook of Japan and Japanese Exhibits at World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, Hajime Hoshi, 1904.

Listed under Porcelain - The Manufacturers of Tokyo Art and General Goods manufactured in Tokyo as one of the participants who exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair held in St. Louis.Memories, Volume 2, Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale, 1916.

First year of Meiji (1868).

(Printed officially by the Imperial Fruiters. Published at Kioto by Murakami Kambei and Inouye Jihei; at
Yedo, by Mohei at the Suwaraya; and Ichibei, at the Idzumiya.). Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History - artist names and dating.

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