:Template:Did you know nominations/Hirado ware

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:45, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

==Hirado ware==

{{main page image|image=Japanese - Sake Bottle ("Tokkuri") with Boys Chasing Butterflies - Walters 49952 - View C (cropped).jpg|caption=Sake bottle|width=120x133}}

... that pieces of Hirado ware decorated with seven boys chasing butterflies (example pictured) were once only made for the shōgun and emperors of Japan? Singer, Robert T. , Goodall-Cristante, Hollis, Hirado porcelain of Japan: from the Kurtzman family collection, pp. 19-21, 1997, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, {{ISBN|0875871828}}, 9780875871820, [http://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/reading_room/Compressed7New%20PDF%20from%20Images%20Output-8.pdf fully online]

:* Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Seder-Masochism

5x expanded by Johnbod (talk). Self-nominated at 00:08, 30 August 2018 (UTC).

:* 16px Ready to go! Article is long enough, new enough, and has no content issues. Passes Earwig's Copyvio Detector with 0.0 percent (congratulations, Johnbod!). The hook is cited to an online source that checks out. -SusanLesch (talk) 21:42, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

::Thanks - actually I've just noticed that "7-boy" pieces were only for the shogun & emperor (per the source), so I've added the shogun. Sorry about that. Johnbod (talk) 00:03, 31 August 2018 (UTC)