Rare Japanese Porcelain Blue and White Koro w/Oranda Jin, Nanban Art
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Koro size: 2 3/4" Dia x 2 3/4" High, 3 1/2" High with Silver Cover
This is Rare Japanese Ko Imari Porcelain Blue and White Koro, Incense
Burner with Jungin (Sterling Silver) Hoya (cover). Koro has Oranda-Jin forms.
(Dutch/Holland men) design work done in Sometuke. Koro is octagonal shape.
It has four Oranda-jin design windows. Other four window panel
with Geometric designs. Inside top rim area with landscape design
painted. Koro came with Jungin (sterling silver) Hoya (cover).
There is Jungin (Japanese for sterling silver) mark as photo showing.
There is Fuku marking on the bottom of Koro.
Fuku is wealth/fortune in English.
The condition of Koro: there are 4 places on the foot rim
area with Kizu (damage) area restored with ceramic Pate (paste).
The dating of Koro from Edo Chuki (middle Edo) around 1750's.
This wonderful Koro was originally used as Choko Cup, Tea Cup made into Koro by adding Silver Hoya(cover). Please see the Incense Burner /Choko Cup Photo in the book of "Four Centuries of BLUE AND WHITE", Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, by Becky Macguire.
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Nanban Trade(Namban Trade)
Sanai pleased to introduce the item from Nanban Trade which you can read whole historical events in Japan during Sakoku period(locked country, from 1603 to 1868) at Wikipedia. Nanban (translated in English as Southern Barbarian) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanban_trade
Nanban trade (南蛮貿易, Nanban bōeki, "Southern barbarian trade") or the Nanban trade period (南蛮貿易時代, Nanban bōeki jidai, "Southern barbarian trade period") was a period in the history of Japan from the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614.[note 1] Nanban (南蛮 lit. 'Southern barbarian') is a Japanese word which had been used to designate people from Southern China, the Ryukyu Islands, the Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia centuries prior to the arrival of the first Europeans. For instance, according to the Nihon Kiryaku (日本紀略), Dazaifu, the administrative center of Kyūshū, reported that the Nanban (southern barbarian) pirates, who were identified as Amami islanders by the Shōyūki (982–1032 for the extant portion), pillaged a wide area of Kyūshū in 997. In response, Dazaifu ordered Kikaijima (貴駕島) to arrest the Nanban.
The Nanban trade as a form of European contact began with Portuguese explorers, missionaries, and merchants in the Sengoku period and established long-distance overseas trade routes with Japan. The resulting technological and cultural exchange included the introduction of matchlock firearms, cannons, galleon-style shipbuilding, Christianity to Japan, among other cultural aspects. The Nanban trade declined in the early Edo period with the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate which feared the influence of Christianity in Japan, particularly the Roman Catholicism of the Portuguese. The Tokugawa issued a series of Sakoku policies that increasingly isolated Japan from the outside world and limited European trade to Dutch traders on the island of Dejima.
I have pasted only relating subject on our Dish. The Tokugawa issued a series of Sakoku policies that increasingly isolated Japan from the outside world and limited European trade to Dutch traders on the island of Dejima.
Nanban art (南蛮美術) refers to Japanese art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries influenced by contact with the Nanban (南蛮) or 'Southern barbarians', traders and missionaries from Europe and specifically from Portugal. It is a Sino-Japanese word, Chinese Nánmán, originally referring to the peoples of South Asia.
Sakoku (locked country)
Please see the subject at Wikipedia, Sakoku. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku#End_of_isolationism
Sakoku (鎖國, "locked country") is the common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and nearly all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country. The policy was enacted by the shogunate government (bakufu) under Tokugawa Iemitsu through a number of edicts and policies from 1633 to 1639. The term sakoku originates from the manuscript work Sakoku-ron (鎖國論) written by Japanese astronomer and translator Shizuki Tadao in 1801. Shizuki invented the word while translating the works of the 17th-century German traveller Engelbert Kaempfer concerning Japan.
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