Page 481 - Catalogue of the Edward Morse collection of Japanese pottery MFA BOSTON

PROVINCE OF SATSUMA 321
TSUBOYA (Case 38 and Plate XXVI. 4332, 4336)
A form of pottery attributed to the early work of Korean potters in Tsuboya is
easily distinguished by the olive-green glaze and coarse reddish clay. The type of this
form may be seen in the large jar (Cat. No. 4326) made for brewing sake. Ninagawa
figures this, and states it was made by Koreans in Tsuboya. It was further recorded
by him that the earliest work was made of Korean earth and glazing materials. Other
forms having more or less resemblance to this type are grouped under the name
Tsuboya for convenience of designation.

4326. Jar. H. 19 in. Globular body, constricted neck, and flaring rim. Coarse reddish-
brown clay, thick olive-green glaze running in long streams and terminating in drops on
unglazed surface below. Strongly clouded. 1600
Type Ninagawa. Part III., Fig. 25.
Remarkably beautiful in form.
4327' Parching-pan. D. 7I in. Coarse brown clay, olive-brown glaze mottled. 1600
4328. Tea-jar. H. 2 in. Grayish-brown clay, olive-green glaze with large areas of
greenish overglaze. Bottom indented. 1600
4329- Jar, with looped handles. H. 4J in. 1600
4330' Tea-bowl. D. 5^ in. Reddish-brown clay, thick reddish-brown glaze. 1600
4332. Globular jar. H. 6 in. Light dull brown clay, clear brown glaze with delicate
streams of olive-fawn and darker mottling. 1630
A remarkable example.
4333- Water-jar, with flaring rim. H. 6]^ in. Thick and heavy. 1700
4334- Bowl, thick straight sides. D. 3I in. Dull brown clay, thick dull olive -brown
glaze with areas of lustrous dark bluish-brown, iridescent. 1700
Gift of Denman W. Ross.
4335- Jar. H. 6J in. 1780
4336- Bowl, sides compressed. D. 4 in. Dull brown clay, mottled brown underglaze
with areas of olive-fawn overglaze ; around rim lustrous brown glaze running, flecked with
white and light blue. 1780

SUNKOROKU (Case 37 and Plate XXVI. 4337, 4338)
A hard stone pottery with dull yellowish or grayish clay (that having the former
color being the oldest), with a peculiar archaic decoration of scrolls and diapers, rarely
landscapes, carefully drawn in dark brown, is known to the Japanese as Sunkoroku.
One piece has an undecipherable mark, another has scratched through the glaze the
mark Tama. The work Tokiko says that the word Sunkoroku ought to be written
Rosokoroku. It further adds that Sun stands for the Chinese dynasty, and Koroku
the name of a pottery. Whatever the origin of the style of decoration, it forms a most
unique type.
4337' Tea-bowl. D. s in. Yellowish-white clay and glaze. Band of spiral lines, dots
and zones in olive-brown. Coarsely crackled. 1630
An extremely rare object