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Rakans, bijins and samurai are common and are often interchangeable for that of other producers.

Retro style decoration, later part of 20th century.

Once white clay was discovered in the area, potters used it to make lighter-colored Satsuma pieces, the forerunners to the Satsuma we know today.

Owari produces so many varieties of porcelain and stoneware that the Japanese speak of porcelain and pottery in general as " Setomono" after the village Seto, slightly north of Nagoya.

Do you have any tips for our readers on spotting fakes or copies of Satsuma Pottery? It looks like we both have pieces from the same artist! This marks however printed gives an example of marks that includes "Dai Nippon" in Japanese characters occurs well after the Meiji 1868-1912 period.

Mark: "T T" in two rectangles.

We are very curious if they are true satsuma pieces.

The porcelain is thus likely to be from the first decades of the 20h century.

Mark: Juzan gama K 748.