The ''Tōkikō'' (陶器考: Investigations of Pottery) is a

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that describes the Japanese ''

shimamono is a generic term for Japanese tea utensils produced outside Japan, Korea and China, mainly from Southeast Asia. History Items from Korea, called , and from China, called , are not considered ''shimamono''. They were imported with ships on tr ...

'' pottery trade with southeast Asia and India and gives detailed descriptions. It was written in 1854 by Tanaka Yonisaburo (田内米三郎) and published in 1883 in Tokyo.

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in his work "Chinese Pottery in the Philippines" from 1912 gives an English translation of two chapters which describe pottery of

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(''Rusun'') and

Nanban trade or the 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. is a Japanese word borrowed from Chinese ''Nanman'', which had been used to designate people fr ...

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