Height 17.7 cm, mouth diameter 18.2 cm, bottom diameter 15.1 cm, Hatakeyama Memorial Museum
This is a water jar in the shape of a four-sided tsuribi, with a hand passing over the mouth, but the preference for passing the hand between the four and six quarters of the mouth is also thought to date from the early Edo period. The entire surface is coated with clay and fired, but a reddish spot is clearly visible where ashes are expected to fall heavily, deepening the flavor of the piece. There is a large rounded mark on the underside of the bottom. On the front of the box lid, there is an inscription “Tsurube kobizen mizusashi koide oosumi-dono yori kuraku” (Tsurube came from Koide Oosumi-dono).
The above is a representative example of Bizen ware from the late Muromachi period to the early Edo period, but there are many other examples of Bizen ware in existence.
