Height 21.0cm, Diameter 23.3cm, Base Diameter 8.5cm
Tokusui Art Museum
In 1852, he was invited by the Nagai clan of Takatsuki to work in Takatsuki, and this water jar is one of the pieces he made there. It is inscribed on the base in underglaze blue: “Made in Takatsuki in the first autumn of the year of the rat, in the fifth year of the Kaei era”. This large water jar is shaped like a sand-glazed water bucket, with an oval-shaped body and a slightly sunken base. The part where the jar is attached to the tatami mat is thickly glazed. Perhaps because the clay from Takatsuki is not very sticky, there is a large crack in the base, and there are eight large circular marks where the jar was placed on the tatami mat. The clay body is paler than other Shouzu copies, and the blue of the underglaze blue is also a little lighter, but it is considered to be the best work of Takatsuki ware. The body is finely decorated with a landscape, pavilions and figures, leaving a lot of blank space, and the rim is decorated with floral scrollwork.
On the lid of the box, it is written “Sometsuke Tsuribizusui”, and on the underside of the lid, it is written “On Takatsuki, In, Hozonzo”.
