Early 1970s Japanese Porcelain Set Daiichi Toki 第弌陶器 Takahashi Imports 高橋 Kakiemon Style

Modern Japanese porcelain set. Soap dish, drinking cup and two containers with lids.  Is "maker" marked with a rakkan seal that reads 第弌陶器 Daiichi Toki.   One of the pieces also has the Japanese mum sticker for 高橋 Takahashi, San Francisco, a US importer.

Dai-ichi Toki is an exporter based in Tajimi City, Gifu, Japan. Takahashi is not the maker, but an importers/exporters who purchase wares in bulk from kilns and exporters, etc, for import to other countries for retail markets, mainly in the US & Europe.

So called expert "Gotheborg" erroneously claims the mark says Takahashi, which it does not since it says Daiichi Toki, with the characters 第弌陶器 in seal script.  The reason for this misidentification is probably due to the fact that an object with this mark had a Takahashi Imports sticker on it since Takahashi sold numerous Dai Ichi Toki products among various other makers.

Seal marking translated by Lita Xú Líng Kelley