Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko)

Japan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 223

Made at Tokoname, one of Japan’s oldest pottery centers, this jar was coil-built and then smoothed on a wheel, a process that inspired its regionally distinctive embellishment of three lightly incised rings. Colors ranging from pale blue to vernal green cloak thick layers of kiln-fused ash glaze. Buried sometime in the late Heian period, this jar protected a bronze cylinder containing precious Buddhist sutras and relics.

Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko), Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware), Japan

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Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko), Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware), Japan
Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko), Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware), Japan
Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko), Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware), Japan
Jar for Sutra Burial (Sankinko), Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware), Japan

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