Title Kawarake plates and bowls

  • Iwate
Topic(s):
Regional Specialties
Medium/Media of Use:
Interpretive Sign
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2019
Associated Tourism Board:
Hiraizumi Town

かわらけ

これらの皿や鉢は、柳之御所で見つかった12世紀に作られた素焼き土器の例です。 手作りまたはろくろでつくられています。それらは直径でおよそ8から16センチメートルまでサイズが異なります。 それらは、食事、酒、行灯のための油を入れるために使われた使い捨ての器です。10トンほどのこれらの器が大きな塚を含んだ平泉から発掘されています。


Kawarake plates and bowls


These plates and bowls are examples of the unglazed earthenware pottery (kawarake) made in the twelfth century that were found at Yanaginogosho. Either hand-built or thrown on pottery wheels, they vary in size from approximately 8 to 16 centimeters in diameter. They were disposable objects used to hold food, sake or oil for oil lamps. Some 10 tons of these plates and bowls have been unearthed in Hiraizumi, sometimes in large aggregations.


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