Excavated from Botaike, Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture
12th century
Height 41.5cm, Mouth diameter 16.0cm, Body diameter 31.5cm, Bottom diameter 12.5cm
Tokoname City Ceramic Art Research Institute
　This is the oldest known four-mimi jar from Tokoname known today. Like the sutra jar described above, its basic shape is that of a medium-sized jar, and it does not have a base. It is likely to have been made for a special purpose, as it is decorated with four longitudinal ears on the shoulders and a three-stripe parallel sunken line pattern on the body.
