Page 103 - Catalogue of the Edward Morse collection of Japanese pottery MFA BOSTON

PROVINCE OF SETTSU 65

dark brown glaze mottled. Bluish-white overglaze on upper portion. Sakurai no Sato
(imp.). 1850
609. Similar to last.
610. Tea-bowl. D. 4I in. Strongly turned rim, uneven walls, thick. Coarse light brown
clay, thin gray underglaze, thick white overglaze, crackled. Under-decoration of pine tree and
poem in blue. Sakurai no Sato (imp.). 1850
611,612. Wine-cups. Sakurai no Sato (^im^.).
SHOZAN (Case 6)
The work of Shuzan, evidently an amateur potter, is represented in the col-
lection by a Raku flower-vase in the form of a tree trunk vigorously vwought. That
he lived in the latter years of the last century is attested by the year period inscribed
upon it. "Mi tokobashira yoki" written upon it, was a fitting inscription for so sturdy
a piece, — to honorably guard or protect the Tokobashira, the post dividing the re-
cesses in the Japanese room, in one of which hangs the picture, or Kakemono, and on
its floor stands the flower-vase.

613. Flower-vase. H. 13^ in. Long and cylindrical. Thick walls, strongly sliced. Soft
buff clay, transparent underglaze, rich thick red Raku overglaze, coarsely
crackled. Anyei go nen Naniwa Shuzan set, mi tokobashira yoki, written in » »
white on side. 1776
Gift of Denman W. Ross.

KODZO (Case 6)
Kodzu, in the environs of Osaka, has sustained an oven for over two
hundred years. Within recent years pieces in the form of cups have been
made with extraordinary black and lustrous glazes. No signature.
614. Bowl. D. 3^ in. Dull iron brown underglaze, rich deepest brown over-
glaze, lustrous. Inside, rich cream-white glaze with pinkish areas, coarsely
crackled, this glaze running over rim. Outside richly mottled with olive-brown.
1850
615. CtJP. D. 2f in. Brown clay, deep mottled brown underglaze, rich
light blue overglaze finely mottled. 1850

KYOZAN (Case 6 and Plate III. 616)
In 1 87 1 Shibata KyiJzan built an oven near Osaka and employed a
potter from Kyoto for the purpose of making utensils for the tea cere-
mony. The only pieces in the collection are two flower-vases, and these
show some taste and skill. The work is signed with the impressed mark w^" V
Kyuzan set. I am strongly inclined to believe (though I have been other- \^J
wise persuaded by Japanese experts) that pottery signed In Kyuzan is
the product of this oven. (See Inaba.) 613
616. Flower-vase. H. 6J in. Fine reddish clay, liver-colored glaze with greenish areas
on upper half. KyUzan set (imp.). 1874