Sakuma Totaro (1900-1976), Mashiko pottery dish, with gestural prunus design to the centre, on reserve on a kaki glaze, wood box. (a/f). Diameter 28.5 cm. Provenance: collection of John & Marguerite Scott; by repute, purchased by Marguerite Scott in November 1967 during a visit to the potter's kiln in Mashiko. Sakuma Totaro was Hamada Shoji's first real friend in Mashiko.