Height 28.7 cm, mouth diameter 1.9 cm, bottom diameter 8.1 cm
Tokyo National Museum
This flower vase has a thin neck with a plump body, and is called a neck vase. It is called go-bosatsu-yaki because of the “go-bosatsu-ike” mark on the right side of the flat bottom, but today it is treated as a type of koshimizu.
According to the travel diary left by Morita Kyuemon, a potter from Tosa, the kiln of Gobosatsuyaki was first located near Gobosatsu-ike in Rakuhoku and later moved to Karasuma Neutral Sell in Rakuchu, which means that Gobosatsuyaki has two kilns. This suggests that some of the Gobosatsu ware was fired in two kilns. Since there are two types of works, one with the seal “Gobosatsu-ike” and the other with the seal “Gobosatsu”, and the one with the Gobosatsu-ike seal is more ancient and superior in style, we may infer that the one with the Gobosatsu-ike seal was fired at the first kiln near the Gobosatsu-ike, as this flower vase is.
The entire surface is covered with a glaze with a penetrating leaf color unique to Koshimizu, leaving the bottom, and an arabesque pattern in blue is applied from the narrow neck to the shoulders. The body is decorated with a bamboo pattern in blue, green, and gold.
The base is low and round, and the bottom is flat and clay-like.
