Vintage Japanese Ceramic Mishima Hakeme Plates Set of 5 Shinroku Tsuji Kyoto Signboard Japanese Print Book Yamato Sakura

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As an excavated medieval ceramic

ready for immediate ritual or ceremonial use

The piece features an abstract modernist form with a textured bronze surface and a curved handle

Dating back to the Late Edo or Early Meiji period (mid to late 19th century)

Vintage Japanese Ceramic Mishima Hakeme Plates Set of 5 Shinroku Tsuji Kyoto Signboard Japanese Print Book Yamato SakuraVintage Japanese Ceramic Mishima Hakeme Plates Set of 5 Shinroku Tsuji Kyoto This is a set of five vintage Japanese Kyoto ware studio pottery small square plates (meimeizara) crafted by the ceramic artist Shinroku Tsuji, complete with a wooden storage box. Born in 1905, Tsuji served as a technician at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry's Ceramic Research Institute before establishing his kiln in Yamashina, Kyoto. The plates are decorated using a