 This was the period at which modern Satsuma ware was distressed for export as antique, and Pollard considers that, up to 1876 at least, there was truth in the allegation of Frank Brinkley that the Makuzu workshop participated in the fraudulent trade.Johannes Justus Rein visited the business in the mid-1870s.The Meiji Restoration had brought about a collapse of the old regulation and financing of kilns.