A Satsuma plate
By Kizan, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryFinely decorated in enamels and gilt with an artist and pupil in the bottom foreground staring agape at the group of figures comprising an oiran (high-ranking courtesan) and attendants coming to life from the right panel of a two-fold screen, the left panel depicting a rural scene of an Oharame (peasant woman from Ohara) carrying bundles of brushwood on her head walking along a bridge; the screen framed by a mass of millefleur; signed on the base with a seal Kizan and an impressed seal Kizan. 19.8cm (7?in) diameter.