From Sutra Mound, Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture
12th century
Height 43.5cm, mouth diameter 17.0cm, body diameter 41.0cm, bottom diameter 16.5cm
Japan Folk Crafts Museum
　This vessel was probably used as an outer container for a sutra case. It has a slightly sloping shoulder and lacks shoulder tension, but it is well proportioned and well proportioned. The clay used is unusually sticky for Atsumi, and the body is made by rolling up the clay and piling it up in three layers. The joints are sealed from the outside with a seal, but only the lower part of the body has indentation marks. The upper section has a burn crack at the joint. The shoulder decoration consists of three parallel sunken lines and a series of upward-facing semi-circular arcs between them, as on the jar shown in Figure 83, and the larger arc compared to the former gives the jar a more relaxed appearance. The ash glaze applied with a brush from the shoulder to the body is well melted, giving it a yellowish-green color, but the glaze is cloudy throughout. This is the best of the Atsumi lotus petal design vases.
