Excavated from Akasu-nakadori, Komagane City, Nagano Prefecture
10th century
Height 18.8cm, Mouth diameter 11.2cm, Body diameter 19.2cm, Bottom diameter 17.0cm
Komagane City Museum
This double-mimi jar is a vertically elongated version of a flattened jar used as Buddhist ritual utensils in esoteric Buddhism from the late 10th to the 11th century, and was mainly used as a cremation vessel in the first half of the 10th century.
It has a hard grayish-white body, and the brush-painted gray glaze has a light green color with a remarkable unevenness in the glaze. A similar twin-eared jar fragment was excavated from Kurozasa Kiln No. 89 of the Sanage Kiln.
