Japanese Arita Blue White Porcelain Dish Decorated With The Ode To The Red Cliff

Japanese dish probably dating from the beginning of the 19th century in a polylobed shape with a decor called "ode to the red falise"* after Su Shi (1037-1101).
poem top left.
Chip at 9 o'clock on the wing, signed below.
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*The Ode depicts Su and his friends traveling on a small boat to visit the red cliffs just outside Huangzhou in an autumn night in 1082. It recalled the Battle of the Red Cliff (Battle of Chibi 赤壁之戰) in 208 AD. It was a fierce battle between the allied forces of Southern Warlord Liu Bei (劉備) and Sun Quan (孫權) and the numerically superior forces of Northern Warlord Cao Cao (曹操). Liu Bei and Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao's army to conquer the lands south of the Yangtze River. The event that happened over 800 years ago made Su reflect on the rise and fall of great historical figures, the shortness of life, and the hypocritical nature of people. He wrote about his philosophical views on the certainty of change in life. For a similarly shaped blue and white dish with this design, see:
The Preliminary Event for the World Ceramic Exhibition, Shibata Collection Part 4, The Establishment and Transformation of the Ko-Imari Style (Akihiko Shibata and Yuko Shibata and other, The Kyushu Ceramics Museum, 1995) page 156, plate 301.