Water Jar, Named "Shiba no Iori (Grass Hut)"
This jar was intended to hold water for refilling the kettle and rinsing tea bowls during tea gatherings. It showcases the rugged beauty of Shigaraki pottery, which comes from a mountainous region east of Kyoto. Under the intense heat of a wood-burning kiln, the surface became cracked, scorched, and partially coated by a glassy glaze.
- Cultural property designation
- Important Cultural Property
- Quantity
- Artist
- Shigaraki ware
- Period/Century
- Azuchi-Momoyama–Edo period, 16th–17th century
- Country/Origin
- Excavation site
- Material
- Stoneware with natural ash glaze
- Size
- Inscriptions
- Donor
- Gift of Mr. Hirota Matsushige
- Collection reference no.
- G-5307
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Category
- Applied arts > Performing arts > Tea ceremony implements
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