Excavated from 90 Kurozasa Kiln, Fukuya-cho, Miyoshi City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
10th century
Total height 9.7cm, lid diameter 13.4cm, bottom diameter 15.1cm
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
　This is a lidded jointed vessel used as Buddhist ritual utensils in esoteric Buddhism in the late Heian period (794-1185), and many of them are rim-glazed ceramic vessels. This piece is also made of high quality clay with a fine white color, and is probably an example of rim-glazed ceramics. The lid is hemispherical with a string in the shape of a jewel, with a four-petaled flower design sewn into the string, and on the outside of the string, a butterfly design on all four sides is expressed by engraving and openwork. This type of lid originally accompanied the fireplace incense burner.
