Height 9.5 cm, mouth diameter 6.2 cm, bottom diameter 4.8 cm
Tokyo National Museum
This incense burner in the shape of an Akouda has a unique vessel shape, and the upper four sides of the body are decorated with a design of peonies and lions in a die-cut pattern applied alternately on the top of the body. This peony and lion design is exactly the same as that on the rim of the “flat bowl with two-color gourd design” shown in Figure 92. However, this incense burner has the Jokei seal stamped on its base. Thus, it is clear that from the late Tensho period to around the Kanei period, the Raku family used pieces with this type of pattern, and that they were used regularly not only by Chojiro but also by other Raku potters. It is covered with kuroraku yuzu, but the entire piece is fired brown, and the mouth is covered with white yuzu. The clay is clearly made of Jyuraku clay, and the base of the bowl is the same as that of the tea bowl.
