The Beauty of Pottery Shards
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Ceramic Shards Excavated from Hizen Kiln Site, Hizen ware, Edo period, 17th century
Japanese Gallery (Honkan) Room 14
October 4, 2011 (Tue) - December 4, 2011 (Sun)The Tokyo National Museum possesses pottery shards excavated from several kiln sites, but until now there has not been an opportunity to show them together. On display in this exhibition are shards excavated from four kiln site. We hope these pottery shards will help to evoke a real image of history.
Current exhibit includes:
Ceramic Shards From Hizen Kiln Site, Hizen ware, Azuchi-Momoyama - Edo period, 16th-19th century
Ceramic Shards From Omuro Kiln Site, Omuro ware, Excavated from Omuro Tatemachi, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Edo period, 17th century
Ceramic Shards From Yue Kiln Site, Yuezhou ware, Excavated from Yue Kiln Site at Shauglin Lake, Cixi City, Zhejiang Province, China, Tang - Northern Song dynasty, 9th-10th century, China
Ceramic Shards From Imperial Kiln Site, Guan ware, Excavated from Jiaotanxia Imperial Kiln Site, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century, China