Excavated from Maeyama, Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture
13th century
Height 67.0cm, mouth diameter 41.0cm, body diameter 65.0cm, bottom diameter 17.5cm
Tokoname City Ceramic Research Institute
This jar is thought to have been made around the end of the 13th century, judging from the fact that its shoulders are slightly more bent than those of the previous large jar, making it more like an arithmetic sphere. All of these large jars have very small bottoms and are unstable. These large jars were probably used mainly as water jars, but since they were buried in the ground, it is safe to assume that they were used as water jars.
