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Excavated in Wakashiro, Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture
15th century
Height 24.3cm, mouth diameter 9.2cm, body diameter 18.9cm, bottom diameter 6.0cm
Katsuyama Town Central Community Center
 This small four-lobed jar belongs to a series of small four-lobed jars, made of rolled clay with a rounded mouth rim with a stepped inner surface. It has four horizontal ears on the shoulder. A single engraved line is engraved under one ear. It is made of coarse clay containing fine grains of quartzite and is not very well fired. It is gray in color from reduction firing, with a slight ash coating on the shoulder, but it has not yet melted.