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 It is now carried on not only at the Maiko factory, but also by Tsuji Seizaemon, at Matsukage, in the same district.

Yet another variety of Akashi ware is the Shudei-yaki, manufactured by Fuji Tsunezō, of Kanegasaki, with clay obtained from Matsukage, in the same district. "Shudei" literally signifies "red clay." It is a name given by the Japanese to Chinese boccaro, the celebrated pottery of Yi-hsiang. Chinese boccaro was imitated with some success by Kyōtō artists, but Japan never furnished materials for this class of ware comparable with those of Yi-hsiang. The Shudei-yaki of Akashi is inferior to that of Kyōtō, and is used principally in the manufacture of common utensils.

Within the past few years a ware called Asagiri-yaki has been produced at Matsukage, in the Akashi district, by Teraoka Genjiro, and a ware called Uozumi-yaki, at Nakano, in the same district, by Nishino-umi Otōsuke. The term Uozumi is derived from the ancient name of the district.

A little more than half a mile westward of the town of Wakayama, in the province of Kishiu stood formerly the country residence of the family whose representatives governed the district. Within the park of this mansion (called Nishihama), at the beginning of the present century, Tokugawa Harunori, then head of the family, caused a private kiln to be built for the manufacture of porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze. It has been