Title Tokoname ware jar with three-line design

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

常滑三筋壺


この容器は12世紀に愛知県の窯元である常滑で作られました。これは水平の三線が彫られています。このデザインは三筋壺として知られており、平安時代(794-1185)の常滑で作られた壺の特徴です。


Tokoname ware jar with three-line design


This container was produced in the twelfth century in Tokoname, a pottery center in Aichi Prefecture. It is incised with three transverse lines in a design known as sankinko (“jar with three lines”). Many such jars were created at Tokoname during the Heian period (794–1185).


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