Height 16.5 cm, mouth diameter 14.0 cm, body diameter 18.0 cm, bottom diameter 9.0 cm
　Koge, Ohkusano, and Hyakuma kilns are known as kilns that produced Mishima karatsu ware. Koge, however, is particularly famous, and this mizusashi is a representative example of Koge’s work. The distinctive shape of this water jar, with its rounded hem, rounded torso, and broadly concave shoulders, is unique to Karatsu and early Bizen blue-and-white porcelain. It is likely to have been made in the Kan’ei period of the early Edo period. The shoulder is marked with diamond-shaped flowers, lotus petals, cherry blossoms, thunderbolt motifs, and arabesques in double lines, and the white is filled in and then glazed. The base is carved high and clear. It is a red earthenware with a fairly high iron content.
