men climbing on sides peering in, 8" diameter, 3" deep, signed, just a firing flaw underneath otherwise excellent.......Sumida is a Japanese pottery made exclusively for export beginning in the late 1800s and ending at the beginning of World War II. The production of Sumida was revived following the end of the war and still continues.Sumida’s name comes from the Sumida River whose course takes it by the Asakusa pottery district near Tokyo. Sumida forms have a heavy body and are covered with relief figures.Seto pottery Ryosai I, active in Tokyo between 1875 and 1900, invented a pottery style that utilized flowing glazes between applied figures. Ryosai II,born in 1860, continued to work in his father’s traditional style. His son Inuoue Ryosai III (1888-1971) moved his manufacturing operation to Yokohama in 1924.Hara Gozan, Ishiguro Koko, and Sezan are other potters who produced Sumida.Sumida GawaSumida Gawa is a softer raku pottery that was made in the early 1800s. The Japanese word gawa translates as river.

one firing flaw otherwise EXCELLENT