Artworks

Water jar called Kogan (The Bank of an Ancient Stream)

Artwork · Anonymous · 16th century · jar · Ebara Hatakeyama Museum of Art

One of the most famous pieces of E Shino ware: a tea-ceremony water jar of fine white-firing clay under a thick, crackled white glaze over marsh grass sketched in iron brown. The thick glaze, almost like water, and its crazing suggest at once great age and agelessness — the wabi and sabi that tea masters such as Takeno Jōō and Sen no Rikyū sought in locally made wares. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 249–250, fig. 284. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.