This is a vintage porcelain jar, in a ginger jar form bottom sans lid. The mark on it indicates it is Japanese Satsuma ware with a sakura. The red stamped mark and style with double square outline dates this as old as1930 and possibly up to the late 1950s. The Satsuma style 'thousand flowers' decoration was transferprinted and the color was added by hand. The thousand flower theme is based on sakura, which is the watching of cherry blossoms in bloom.