Hozen: incense caddy in the style of kōchi ware with crouching ox design

Hozen: incense caddy in the style of kōchi ware with crouching ox design
Hozen: incense caddy in the style of kōchi ware with crouching ox design
Hozen: incense caddy in the style of kōchi ware with crouching ox design

Height 4.9 cm, mouth diameter 4.8 cm, bottom diameter 3.9 cm
 Kohonen was an excellent copyist of Chinese ceramics, and left many excellent copies of kojiki. This incense container is a copy of a “kojimono kojimono banzuke,” a collection of Chinese ceramics, and is molded in the shape of a mold, and the back of the lid is decorated with a cow in a prone position. The entire body is decorated with a four-way corner and the base is also four-way corner. The inside of both the lid and the body are glazed with transparent glaze, while the mouth is unglazed to show the fine white clay. The cow is glazed in purple, and the others in yellow and green, all of which are vividly colored. The bottom is stamped “Eiraku” in the center of the bottom. On the front of the lid of the box is inscribed “koji-yaki gyuu kagai” and on the back of the lid “zengoro-zukuri” (written by Zengoro).

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