![Tokoname ware: jar with tomoe crest design.](https://turuta.jp/ceramics-story/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/12/ysf_10646_2-300x300.jpg)
Excavated from Horai-cho, Minamishitara-gun, Aichi Prefecture
13th century
Height 23.2cm, Mouth diameter 11.5cm, Body diameter 20.5cm, Bottom diameter 10.0cm
Horaicho
This jar belongs to a category of jars with a large body diameter. It is a rare example with a Tomoe design stamped on the shoulder, although it is heavily cracked. Judging from the tension of the shoulder and the shape of the neck, it is thought to have been made in the middle of the Kamakura period. The clay is coarse and iron-bearing, and the surface is darkened by carbon absorption.