Height 8.0 cm, mouth diameter 8.1 cm, bottom diameter 4.7 cm
This piece is called akashino because it has a red glazed surface, but it is also known as nezumi-shino because it is partly fired in a grayish color, indicating that it is a nezumi-shino that has been fired in red. This is a neat incense burner in the shape of a kuchiyose, with a cedar leaf and a “glauca” (a kind of Japanese silver leaf) painted on two sides of the body in thin line engraving, scraped off the oniita (wooden plate) on the underglaze ground. The white design on the red ground is truly brilliant and is renowned as the only masterpiece among Shino incense burners. It has a small, flat, rounded base. The relatively thin glaze applied to the entire piece probably caused the glazed surface to be reddish.
It is assumed to have been made in the under-kiln kiln at Ohgaya and once belonged to the Sekido family of Nagoya.
