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 zashiki (tea-house) called Kōbun-tei, standing in the garden of the Kōraku-en. Here the faience was potted, and hence it derived its name Koraku-en-yaki. It was simply a copy of the Raku faience of Kyōtō, being red in colour and covered with waxy, diaphanous glaze. Another type had black glaze with archaic designs in white slip in high relief.

All the wares hitherto spoken of in this volume, present some feature of interest, whether from a historic or an artistic point of view. They do not, however, exhaust the list of Japanese keramic productions. There is scarcely a province in the Empire where pottery, faience, stone-ware, or porcelain is not produced. But wares other than those here noticed are without exception of a more or less coarse, rude nature, and are destined only for common local consumption. They are therefore omitted from these pages.

For the sake of convenience, a table is added showing the various kinds of Japanese porcelain with reference to their constituents:

The first six wares of this table have already been distinguished as different classes of Japanese porcelain.