13th century. H. 20.0cm. Okayama Prefectural Museum.
Bizen ware : jar with incised lines.
13th century. H. 31.5an. Bizen Old Ceramic Museum.
Bizen ware: jar with incised lines.
Excavated from a site at Kusado-Sengen-cho, Fukuyama-shi.
13th century. H. 35.0cm.
Bizen ware: jar with incised lines.
Excavated at Ashimori, Okayama-shi. 14th century. H. 30.5cm.
Bizen ware: jar with comb-mark incisions.
Excavated at Wakashiro, Katsuyama-machi, Okayama.
14th century. H. 22. 8cm. Katsuyama-machi Central Public Hall.
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NIPPON TO JI ZENSHU 10
A Pageant of Japanese Ceramics
BIZEN WARE
by Akira Ito and Setsuo Uenishi
arranged and translated by Hiroko Nishida
Bizen ware has been produced since the late twelfth century at kilns in Bizen province, now Okayama prefecture along the Inland Sea (Seto Naikai). It is an unglazed pottery which is not very much different from Sue ware of the previous period (Vol. 4).Bizen ware, however, was generally considered an advanced ware since the Bizen kilns produced chiefly jars (tsubo), jars with wide mouths (kame) and mortars (suribachi) like many of the other contemporary kiln centres such as Seto, Tokoname, Atsumi,Echizen and Tamba.
Although Bizen ware tea ceremony utensils are famous and have been praised since the Momoyama period, they do not play an important role in history of the development of Bizen ware.
Therefore, Bizen ware will be discussed based on archaeological research of the Bizen kiln sites and groupings of the findings from the sites.
THE ORIGIN OF BIZEN WARE
In Bizen province, many Sue ware kilns were found and investigated. It is believed that there was a large kiln centre of Sue ware in the previous period (the 5th to the 7th century) as the“Engishiki", the fifty volumes of law prepared by the order of the Emperor Daigo in 927, mentioned the products of Sue ware at Bizen province.