Sake Flask

Sake Flask

Arts-Ceramics; Daily Life-Food

Tokkuri, or sake flasks, were produced in great quantity by the Bizen kilns in the Momoyama period. In this example, clean lines define the plump, barrel-shaped body, thin neck, and crisply finished mouth. The neat, concise form, made from a relatively fine-grained clay, provides a sympathetic surface for the red diagonal streaks which resulted from shielding a vessel wrapped in rice straw from direct contact with the flames during firing. The straw burns away, leaving the hidasuki on a background of unscorched white clay.

Money Hickman et al, "Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama" Dallas Museum of Art, 1996, scan of image on p.217, pl. 86.

Woudenberg, Annie

St. Olaf College

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Japan

Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama 1573 - 1615

1573-1615 CE

Chugoku (region), Okayama-ken (prefecture), Okayama (inhabited place)

7004752

Okayama, Japan

583 w x 768 h, 72 ppi