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 * 1) Sawa Kasuki; commenced work in 1790.
 * 2) Sawa Ichiemon; succeeded in 1804.
 * 3) Sawa Kasuki; succeeded in 1843.
 * 4) Sawa Taichiro; succeeded in 1873.


 * 1) Sawa Toemon, son of Sawa Kasuki; opened a separate factory in 1800.
 * 2) Sawa Toemon; succeeded in 1830.
 * 3) Sawa Toemon; succeeded in 1863.
 * 4) Sawa Toronosuke; succeeded in 1876.

Like other noble patrons of the keramic art in Japan, Fumai, lord of Unshu, had a private factory. It was called Kairaku-zan, and the principal expert employed at it originally was Nagaoka Sumiemon. In 1816 this same potter constructed a kiln within the park of his patron's mansion in Yedo. Returning to Izumo, he was succeeded by his son Kōsai; the latter by his son Sumiemon, and the last by his son Shonosuki. The wares of these artists did not differ from the Fujina-yaki described above, except when the faience of Korea was taken as a model for special manufactures.

It will be seen from what has been written that the ware of Izumo owed its reputation almost entirely to the patronage of Fumai, and that its period of greatest prosperity was during his lifetime. Shortly before the abolition of feudalism (1868), the factories at Fujina were closed. They remained so until 1875, when Mr. Wakai, a well-known connoisseur, at that