Excavated at Otsuka, Toyota-shi, Aichi.
6th century.
Height 48.0cm, Diameter 37.0cm x 38.0cm, Bottom diameter 22.0cm
Toyota City Museum of Local History
　This burial mound, 37.8 m in diameter, was excavated from the main part of the Toyoda-Otsuka burial mound, which was built on the southern edge of the Koromo Plateau, as one of many burial accessories. It is a type of decorative Sue ware consisting of four jars with decorations on the lids mounted on pedestals. There are no holes in the lid knob. The bag-shaped base supporting the jars is decorated with oblique comb patterns between the double chink lines, and below that with comb wave patterns, and the former pattern is repeated. The thick base is decorated with a comb-shaped wavy pattern between four chinkans. The base is made of coarse sand chamber, and the firing process is grayish-white, almost raw. Judging from the shape of the lid knob and lid, it can be dated to the early 6th century. In addition to this vessel, a number of decorated Sue ware including three four-layered cups with bases were excavated from this burial mound, indicating that decorative Sue ware was most frequently produced in this period. Needless to say, Sue vessels with many similarly shaped jars and cups attached to the base are Ming vessels, and this is probably based on the intention of showing the abundance of food offerings to the dead.
