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Found this little Japanese teapot, minus its lid. Could someone tell me something about it please and the gist of the calligraphy and labels? I can make out the date 1590 top right in 2nd photo, but am stumped by the rest. Many thanks in advance. Height 14 cms Radius of base 6cms. More images to follow.

The inscription on the teapot is a part of the inscription engraved on the Sanjō Ōhashi Bridge in
Kyōto. I don't think the teapot is more than 100 years old.

洛陽三條之橋到後
代化度往遷人盤石
之礎入地五尋切石
造柱六十三本蓋於
日域石柱橋濫觴乎
天正十八年庚寅正月日
豊臣初之御代奉
増田右衛門尉
長盛造之
Rakuyō (Kyōto) Sanjō Bridge、
the bridge is that it will enable people to travel across it without getting lost for generations to come.
The foundation of the bridge was laid with sixty three cut stone pillars, five hiro underground.
It was completed on the first day of the first month of the 18th -Metal-Tiger- Year of Tenshō Era (1590), during the first reign of Toyotomi. under the supervision of Masuda Uemon-no-jō Nagamori.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Many thanks. Since posting, I`ve been told that with lid intact the pot replicates the giboshi on that bridge in which the inscription appears. Thank you again.

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