Excavated from Kiln No.2, Yonike Matsubuchi, Maeyama, Tokoname-shi, Aichi
12th century
Height 25.0cm, Bowl diameter 29.2cm, Body diameter 35.3cm
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
In addition to jars, pots, and mortar, the Tokoname Kiln also fired pots such as this. They are also called tsubagama or hagama because they have a rim band to hang slightly below the mouth rim. Because kettles are used for boiling over a fire, they are made of sandy clay and are usually fired at a low temperature, somewhere between earthenware and ceramics. The volume of each pot is large, enough to cook five square kilograms of rice at a time. They were no longer seen around the end of the Kamakura period (1185-1333). This is probably because iron kettles began to spread.
