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 through the medium of Chinese dealers in Nagasaki. Specimens thus distinguished were not of the finest quality, and probably for this reason they do not appear to have been carefully preserved. Throughout the Tempō era (1830–1843) the practice of marking—in blue under the glaze—seems to have become commoner, but the outcome of the factory was so small that very few specimens of that period survive.

The names of the Mikawachi potters and their order of descent are as follows:—