Japan Marks - Seiji Kaisha |
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| SEIJI KAISHA (青会社) | ||||||||
| Name variants: Seiji-sha, Seiji Gaisha, Seiji Kuwaisha, Seiji Kwaisha | ||||||||
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Catalogue of a
collection of paintings by European and American
artists: and of Chinese, Cochin-Chinese, Korean and
Japanese keramics, &c., the property of Thomas E
Waggaman, Thomas E. Waggaman, 1888. #68.—Vase, cylindrical, with feet, pierced globular body, Tokyo Porcelain. Made in Tokyo, Province of Musashi. H. 12 1/4 in.; D. 7 in., Date, 1880-1885. Seiji, Celadon glaze with floral designs in blue and gold. Marked, Seiji Kaisha Sei. (Made by the Seiji Company.) (No. 447.—"Old Chinese Porcelain."—Morgan Collection.) |
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Official Catalogue of
the World's Columbian Exposition 1893,
Moses Purnell Handy, 1893. Group 91 - Exhibit #555. Sanda-Seiji-Kwaisha, Hyogo, Porcelain. 577. Exhibit #560. Seiji-Kwaisha, Saga, a. Stoneware. 575, b. Hanging dish. 576. Group 148 - Pottery, Porcelain, etc. - Exhibit for Seiji-gaisha. #291a. A pair of flower vases and #291b. Incenser. |
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General view of
commerce & industry in the empire of Japan,
Nōshōmushō. Shōkōkyoku, Printed by M. Ōnuki, 1893.
Commercial Name - Seiji Kwaisha, Name of Principal Person or Owner - Tetsuka Kamenosuke, Business Place - Arita-cho, Nishimatsuuragori, Manufacturing Articles - Porcelain. |
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Book of pottery marks,
William Percival Jervis, 1897. 23-26. Seiji Kaisha, Arita, Province of Hizen.— Manufacturers of fine porcelain for the Imperial Court. No. 23 is in blue or red on goods made for general trade. No. 24 in blue or gold for the Imperial Court only: 25 and 26 in blue, red and gold on art ware only. |
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Japan - Its
history, arts and literature,
Volume VIII, Frank Brinkley, 1901. In 1876 he [Fukagawa Eizaemon] took the lead in establishing a keramic society called the Koran-sha. This name, which literally signifies " the company of the fragrant orchid," was that of a factory at which the Tsuji family had for many years been engaged in the manufacture of porcelain for official use. A spray of orchid flowers and leaves had long been a favourite mark on Arita ware (vide Marks and Seals). Tsuji Katsuzo, then head of the factory, joined the new association, and by the enterprise of these artists the manufacture of Arita porcelain began to recover much of its old excellence. They did not indeed succeed in preparing a fine phte and a lustrous, uniform glaze, equal to the work of the old potters; but their management of verifiable enamels and their fertility in decorative designs left little to be desired. In 1880 Tsuji seceded from the Koran-sha, in company with several other experts, and established a separate association, to which they gave the name of Seiji-sha (pure ware company). The original purpose of the Seiji-sha was to produce porcelain for export only, but it soon began to supply the home market also. The principal artists are Tsuji Katsuo, Tetsuka Kame-nosuke, Fukami Takeji, and Kawara Chujiro. Their work, already admirable, gives earnest of steady improvement. At a recent exhibition in Tokyo, vases in fine white biscuit with delicately executed designs in relief, and large pieces richly decorated with enamels of great brilliancy, established the Seiji-sha's title to be regarded as the leading factory in Arita. They are now working with machinery procured from France, and it is safe to predict that unless they revert to the degraded fashions of the years immediately succeeding the fall of feudalism, when Japanese artists generally fell into the error of pandering to the lowest form of Western taste, the Arita porcelain of the future will be equal in brilliancy and superior in decoration to the Imari-yaki of the past. Brinkley, Hizen - mark #114 - Mark of the Seiji-Kaisha (company). |
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 Brinkley Hizen mark #114 - SEIJI KAISHA (※) Kome (Rice grain) trademark (青) Seiji for Seiji Kaisha |
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Porcelain, oriental, continental and
British:
a book of handy reference for collectors, Robert Lockhart
Hobson, 1906. Another company was founded in 1880 by Tsugi (figure 30 - reads, Hizen Tsugi sei - "Made by Tsugi in Hizen"), who seceded from the Koransha; it is known as the Seiji-sha ("pure ware company"), and had for its object the manufacture of ware for export, though it also caters for the home market. |
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Porcelain, a sketch of its nature,
art and manufacture, William Burton, 1906. After the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, when it was found that Japanese artistic porcelain was at a very low ebb, the potters of Arita founded an association, known as the Koransha (" the company of the fragrant orchid "), while a secession was started in 1880 under the name of Seiji-sha (" pure-ware company "). |
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