Samurai Vase Translation Sought

[hddennis]

Found this today and wonder if anyone can translate the signatures? 

 

Thanks in advance,

Howard Dennis

[SteveM]

秋田焼　Akita-yaki  有田焼 Arita-yaki  (edit: fixed a stupid mistake)

名窯？    Mei kama  (famous kiln)

[k morita]

Hi,

有田焼 (Arita-yaki), not Akita.

石窯　(Seki-yo)?

 

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Liking that vase, though. 

[hddennis]

6 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Liking that vase, though. 

 

[hddennis]

Thank You All for responding.

 

I liked the subject matter too but didn't understand it till this post from Facebook member Tony Chambers:

 

 

Specifically, "The Tales of the Heike" Book 11, chapter 4, "Nasu no Yoichi." I recommend Burton Watson's translation, if you want to look into it. "'What is that?' exclaimed the onlookers, for they could now see a woman of eighteen or nineteen, very lovely and refined in bearing, wearing crimson trousers over a five-layer robe of green-lined white. Attached to a pole she held a crimson fan with a golden sun painted on it." The Genji leader calls on Nasu no Yoichi to shoot the fan. Riding his horse as far as possible into the water, "Yoichi took out the humming arrow, fitted it to his bow and, pulling the bow all the way back, sent it whistling on its way. . . . With a crack it struck the fan about an inch above the rivet, knocking it loose. As the arrow plunged beneath the waves, the fan rose up into the sky. For a moment it fluttered about in the empty air, buffeted this way and that by the spring breeze, and then all at once it plummeted into the sea. In the rays of the setting sun, the red fan face with its golden sun could be seen bobbing and sinking as it drifted over the white waves." The incident foreshadows the ultimate victory of the Genji clan (associated with white) over the Heike clan (associated with red).

 

Howard Dennis

[Bugyotsuji]

I have this old tattered painting about which I know nothing, apart from the theme so admirably described above.