Height 5.9 cm, Bowl diameter 28.9 cm, Base diameter 13.6 cm, Umezawa Memorial Museum
It was Mr. Imaizumi who presented this unparalleled large dish as an old Nabeshima dish from the Minamigawara period, a presumption that is probably valid. The autumn grasses on the front of the dish and the pattern of dust in a blurred dye pattern are in the Kakiemon style, suggesting that this dish is of the Kakiemon line. However, the long combed decoration on the high plateau extending to the tatami mats and the arabesques with peony flowers on three sides are also characteristic of the Nabeshima domain kilns. In a strict sense, it is not clear whether this dish was made for Ko-Nabeshima or Kakiemon, but it can be said to be an early example of a large dish (shaku-plate) in the Ko-Nabeshima style.
