3 Footed Slip-Cast Pink Vase, Illegible Mark; Help Please

It's 8 1/4" high, ~3 1/2" rim diameter; weight is almost 16 oz.

The slip-cast origin shows inside, at the 3 feet; there are no exterior mold-seams. All of the patterns are overglaze appliqués that have been hand-painted...an' that's the only information in the mark that I am barely confident about. The body is a very light pink; the interior is fully glazed, with the mouth interior also given an opaline finish, an' a thin gold trace at the rim.
The mark is an oval of text with a pagoda-like shape inside, with 2 lines of horizontal text beneath it...Google Image rendered no help. At a stretch, I get USA at the end of the first of those lines...but the second I think leads with made in; so there's an anomalous puzzle about it, to me. Thanks for lookin'!

 

It says hand painted underneath it.

 

I think it is hand painted in UsA and 'made in' somewhere else. Last two letters look like AN so maybe Japan?

 

Yeah...I got that!

 

That makes two of us then

 

Ahh...that would solve the puzzle...Thanks!

 

Well apart from the producers mark.

 

Found these on a blog but it still doesn't reveal the makers mark.

https://modernjapanesepotterymarks.blogspot.com/2014/09/made-in-japan.html?m=1

 

I de-saturated that dark red version, but didn't change the readability a WHOLE lot though...........

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Gold garden?
Or am I thinking of the Chinese-Indonesian restaurant I once worked at.

Pretty vase, whit.

 

Gold castle Chikusa

 

Gotheborg sort of mentions both the Tashiro Shoten connection from White's book and the Goldcastle only as different entries. Neither mark is the exact one as they only show and elephant and mention a flower and show a word symbol for Tashiro. I don't know that the dates line up exactly.

Tashiro Shoten Ltd, Nagoya
"Tashiro Shoten Ltd porcelain shop in Yokohama which were active before WWII up until 1954. The use of the word "Shoten" indicates the name for a shop which is selling products from its own kiln. The years below are all tentative and we have no firm data on specific years. Carol Bess White, Made in Japan books has it that Goldcastle, CHIKUSA belongs to Tashiro Shoten Ltd in Nagoya, Japan. Other names used by Tashiro Shoten are "Trico", "Trico China", "Royal Trico", and two logo marks: Elephant above MADE IN JAPAN and TA within a cherry blossom flower. For the Japanese market it appears as if a Japanese mark was used since pieces with the elephant mark is hardly or not at all found in Japan today."



Goldcastle
753. Mid 20th century, 1950-60s.
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759. "GOLDCASTLE MADE IN JAPAN", Mid 20th century, 1950-60s.

https://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml

 

From wiki: Chikusa (千種区, Chikusa-ku) is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.