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 scope of the factory and manufactured chiefly for foreign markets. The family is now represented by Bizan of the fourth generation, who assumed the direction of the factory on his father's death in the spring of 1887.

Of other workers at Awata it will suffice to mention the names of Mimura Genjiro and Namura Kyujiro. The former is the son of Mimura Gembei, who was a pupil of Hōzan Bunzo about the year 1817. The latter's father, Mimura Umekichi, was also a pupil of Bunzo. Both are skilled potters, but their work presents no original features.

The following analysis of the clays used in the manufacture of Awata faience was made by Professor R. W. Atkinson, formerly of the Tōkyō University, and published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan:—

An analysis of Awata faience masses was subsequently made by M. Korschelt, with the following results:—