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Satsuma mark: 錦光山造

Mark details

This four-character brush mark dates to the Meiji era and differs from later printed labels.

Undated

Four-character square signature without the Yasuda emblem or Shimazu crest; the handwritten number is a collection mark.

Undated

Gold square seal with the full Yabu Meizan name; the same seal format appears in a 1904 advertisement.

Undated

An impressed body mark differs from painted Taizan signatures; the kiln closed in 1894.

Undated

Yasuda emblem supplies a proposed post-1896 limit; a different Ryozan spelling need not identify Okamoto.

Undated

This black-panel format dates to about 1900; the name can identify commissioned work.