Can Anyone Translate or ID this marking?

Its on the back of a plate, i'm not sure if it's chinese/japanese/other

 

Here is what the front looks like:

 

That picture of the marking looks rather blurry - is it that blurry in person or just hard to focus the camera on?

 

MrNate, that's a very pretty plate, but I'm afraid that (as Bakers has said) the mark is just too blurry to make out.

 

I wonder whether the plate is shown upside down. Was looking at Gotheborg and one of the Japanese mark plate examples mentioned a particular way that artists in that location were trained to paint wisteria blooms (which hang.)

 

Here's the picture I mentioned. Just to show how if you turn the plate around you see the hanging wisteria (which in MrNate's plate are more opulent.)

http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/811_fullsize.jpg

 

Thank you everyone for giving it a shot. I clearly failed at focusing on the makers mark doh! bakersgma your research is always amazing

 

@MrNate Is that plate on top of a whole stack of the same? If so, any chance that one of the others has a clearer mark?

 

Here is a better picture:

 

Definitely better! Now the challenge is to figure out which way is "up."

 

I'm beginning to think it may be a Satsuma plate? I really don't know what that is, but Satsuma plates seem similar.

 

That is possible, but I have not found a good match for the mark on Gotheborg. All the straight lines and (mostly) right angles is not very common. And even less common is black ground for a gold mark (without a rectangular outline.) There is one, but it is not match. Close but no cigar.

 

BTW, I have come to believe that the correct orientation of this mark is a 90 degree clockwise turn from the way your picture is oriented.

 

I have found a lot of similar marks by searching for meiji satsuma marks but yes without the outline is not as common I can see.

 

Were you using Dr. Google or did you go straight to Gotheborg?

 

Here is the picture of the closest mark I could find. Number 822 in the Satsuma section on Gotheborg.com. Note that the listings are not in numerical order.

http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/bild/822_fullsize.jpg

 

I was trying to find matches using Google images