A SHOKI IMARI DISH EDO PERIOD, 1630-1640S |

the circular dish with narrow everted rim, decorated in underglaze blue with stylised feathers bordered by circumferential lines with a dark wash to the rim

Sekido Museum of Art, Yamatake Yoshikazu Collection – Early Imari Exhibition (Tokyo, 2014), pl.49 p.44 Ogi Kazuyoshi and Murakami Nobuyuki, Imari Tanjo to tenkai – Sosei kara sono hatten no ato wo miru (Tokyo, 1998), pl.47

Overall this dish is in good condition with a few small pieces of kiln grit in the glaze.
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Kazuyoshi and Nobuyuki (Tokyo, 1998) describe this dish with yabane (feather arrow) motif as finely executed with the twelve arrows evenly drawn over the whole dish. Shards of this design were excavated at the Hokaoyama kiln in Arita. For a similar example see Toguri Museum of Art, Early Imari Ware (Tokyo, 1997), pl.46 p.27