The Antique Shoundo Kutani Meiji Period Iron Red, Orange & Gilt Plate is a beautiful piece of Japanese porcelain and pottery from the Meiji period (1868-1913). Created by Shoundo in the Kutani Sei of the Kaga province, this hand painted 8.25” plate with scalloped edge features designs in red, orange, and gilt. This seems to a commemorative plate recognizing the end of a war perhaps. Google translations vacillated on the interpretation of the written characters featured on the front but one may say “12 years of peace” and the other “Shohei 10th (or 16th?) year. The signature interpretation on the back of the plate was decisive with the words Kutani and Shoundo, and fairly decisive with “Matsumoto”.