... And samurai?
 

Beautiful Japanese dish ...

No, not samurai. The plot clearly religious. Apparently, the goddess of Kannon and Buddhist saints, Arhats or bodhisattva. Maybe even some specific saints, but I'm so close to Buddhism is not familiar to them to figure out.
On the stamp 2 characters 大 日 (Dayniti) read with ease, the third alleged 窑 (kama), translates as "oven", or pottery. There is a stove until now, even the site it has:
http://dainichigama.com/
But now they make blue and white porcelain in the style of Imari. Perhaps, once before and under the Satsuma did like this dish, it is difficult to say.

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A prototype for this dish served as some sort is such satsumskaya:

Communication, of course, begs - stamp.
Many things in Japan I bought without this stamp.
But the question was about the story and its meaning.

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Do you Claudia with Japanese characters ?:shy:

[QUOTE="heir 1192571]Do you Claudia with Japanese characters?[/QUOTE]
No, I have them from an electronic dictionary copy the :)

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A prototype for this dish served as some sort is such satsumskaya:
http://www.trocadero.com/mitch0369/i...tem969916.html
Actually quite a popular decoration in the form of saints in Satsuma.
Here's something else in the same vein
http://www.trocadero.com/dynastycoll...68731/en1.html
http://www.trocadero.com/Jadestone/i...78848/en2.html
But of course to the one that we are discussing, in very simplified form, the plot copied.

Extremely grateful for your help.

I think it is inexpensive, because no collection value, it is pure decoration.