Height 2.6cm, mouth diameter 6.6cm x 28.5cm, bottom diameter 6.6cm x 28.3cm
Yugi Art Museum
This is a rectangular plate in the shape of a strip of paper with a vertical mouth. The ten dishes are housed in a joint box with the inscription on the lid, “Made by Hualuo potter Qianshan, aged 81,” indicating that they were made in Qianshan’s last year of life. The plate is a long strip-shaped dish with a white underglaze finish. The inner and outer surfaces are painted with thin gouzu and iron pigments in cloud formations similar to those on the strip, and each has a waka poem inscribed on it. The side of the box is inscribed “Jutai waka yugen tai choko yushin tai choko yujin tai choko koto mi-yoshi tai ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko” (the first half of the waka poem is written below the body of the waka poem. The interesting body contains the poem “How the bamboo in the back of the Sonou house in Senjikatsuka Sonou Kakikomoru to Yonokoro no Yonokoro no Soshikashi”, the dark body contains the poem “Tachidashi tsuki kurashi koshikataoka no huruuki yamamichi to narimanaru narimanaru? The poem “Souideyo takakakane koto no sueno narin kinofu no kumo no toki no yamakaze” is written on the onira body, and the inscription “Kienzan 81 years old copy” is written on the back of the onira body. The waka characters are decorative in the Teika style, and the inscription “Qianzan” has a straight line instead of the rounded fishhook style “Qian” radicals of the Narutaki period, similar to the characters on the signature of the “Potters’ Essentials” inscribed in the back in the second year of Genbun.
