Hello everyone, what a great idea this forum is!  I just joined.

I'm attaching a pic of my item and it's mark.  I bought it this morning at a thrift store but have been unable to locate any info on the mark. 

Hi

I dont know much about oriental ceramics, but i know a man who does Keith Jennings, he is on my forum, but i will add a link to here so he can take a look at this and other posts.

Kev

-- Edited by Madbrit at 10:34, 2008-11-14

Thank you so much, MadBrit! I appreciate it...

Hi, The dish is Japanese and because of the shape would be called 'nagazara'. The blue decoration appears to be printed, as does the mark. The mark looks like it is written in katagana, not sure what it says. Probably modern, circa 1950-now. Cheers, Keith

Thank you Keith, I very much appreciate your input. I have a Japanese friend and have sent the mark to her to see if she can tell me what it means. Cindy