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These were mass produced during this time and sold to western military personnel on the bases and to visitors and tourists.

The first and very earliest wares are the rarest of the rare and were stonewares covered with a thick dark glaze.

The typical Satsuma ware we most of the time comes into contact with is a yellowish earthenware usually decorated with a minute decoration with Japanese figures, expressive faces or detailed oriental landscapes, or sometimes embellished with vivid dragons in relief.

Mark: Dai Nihon Satsuma Gyokusen zo.

Collecting Satsuma Pottery Collecting Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma Pottery — What to look out for? The Japanese themselves had very little interest in this ware.

Taisho period 1912-1926 or sligtly later.

"Satsuma Gosu Blue" was produced in very limited quantity in Kyoto in the mid-19th century, and is now the most sought after of the Satsuma wares.

A comment on Kyoto or Awata wares as compared to Satsuma ware is that pieces manufactured in Awata near Kyoto, after the Edo period, are all called Kyoto Satsuma.

Some of the finest pieces of Satsuma pottery were manufactured c1900.