Excavated at Noge-mura, Fukuoka. 6th century.
Height 14.0cm, mouth diameter 8.5cm, body diameter 7.1cm x 19.8cm.
Ise Jingu Chokokan Agricultural Museum
　This is a kind of vase resembling a canteen made of bound together skins, and was found in various burial mounds from the late 6th to the early 7th century. It is a wheel-thrown, flat-bottomed, bowl-shaped object with its mouth rim folded in half and a hole drilled in the upper surface, to which a neck is attached. In addition, there are five to seven bamboo tubes pressed in a circular pattern between the strips. Liquid containers made of interlinked skins were originally used by the horsemen of Northeast Asia, but the relationship between the two is not entirely clear.
