Excavated from Okinoshima Island, Munakata City, Fukuoka Prefecture
8th century
Height 6.0cm, mouth diameter 3.6cm, body diameter 6.8cm, bottom diameter 3.1cm
Munakata Grand Shrine
This is one of three small Nisai flat-bottomed vases excavated from the No. 1 site.
The mouth rim is slightly tilted inward, and the body has lost its shoulder tension, resulting in a long body. This vase has a rotary thread cutting mark on the underside of the bottom, but there is also another vase with a stationary thread cutting mark.
The glaze is green glazed with chidori ren-arc patterns. The shaping is shaving. This is the latest of the Sansai and Nisai small vases from the same site, and is probably from the early Heian period.
