that the mark on the gold seal was a copy of a Chinese inscriptionmeaning Offshoot of Hopin ; Hopin being the name of a mythicalChinese factory at which the Emperor Shun (b.c. 2253-2106) is said tohave worked before he came to the throne. The word Eiraku ;s theJapanese form of the Chinese ideograph…
Porcelain
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