Excavated at Funada Site, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo.
6th century.
Height 5.0cm, Diameter 12.0cm, Body diameter 12.5cm.
Hachioji Municipal Museum of Local History.
This is a typical earthenware cup copied from a Sue ware cup. The accompanying Sue ware cup dates from the Kaihokuzuka and Dokiiyama burial mounds at the end of the 6th century, and can be used as a chronological reference point. The interior and exterior surfaces, especially the bottom, have been thinned by scraping, and the ware is well tempered and reddish in color.
