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Ceramic

Raku ware: light gray earthenware with black glaze and with seal on underside shoulder reading, "Raku"

Awata ware; white earthenware with decoration in original cartouches in overglaze polychrome enamels and with background decoration imitating cloisonne enamel; with inscription on base reading 'Nihon Kyoto Kinkōzan zo'

Satsuma ware; white earthenware with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels and with impressed mark on the base reading 'Taizan'

Imari celadon ware: fine-grained, light gray stoneware with decoration in cobalt blue under a celadon glaze

Imitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Lacquer on wood

Iga ware: grayish-white stoneware partially covered with a transparent green ash glaze

Ceramic

Cloisonné enamel ware; polychrome enamels on brass; with incised signature reading "Kyōto Namikawa" on a silver plaque adhered to the base

Ceramic

Ceramic