Echizen Ohaguro Pot - Echizen Ohaguro Pot

...Products consist mainly of vases, pots, and mortars, and in the early period, sansuji vases and water jugs were also produced, but no bowls or plates were produced. In the middle to late Muromachi period, many double-eared vases, which are characteristic of old Echizen, were produced, and small katakuchi vases with two ears on the shoulders were mass-produced from the end of the Muromachi period to the Momoyama period, and are known by the name of Echizen Ohaguro vases. The trade area of ​​old Echizen extended along the Japan Sea coast up to Hokkaido and parts of Kinki, but in the early modern period, with the influx of high-quality ceramics from Seto, Mino, Karatsu, and Arita, it fell into the hands of a local kiln, and production of miscellaneous utensils for farming and fishing villages stagnated. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Echizen Ohaguro Tsubo" is listed below.

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…製品は壺･甕･擂鉢（すりばち）を主とし，初期には三筋壺や水注などを焼いているが，碗･皿類はない。室町時代中～後期には古越前特有の双耳壺が数多く焼かれており，片口小壺は室町末から桃山時代にかけて肩に両耳をもつものが量産され，越前おはぐろ壺の名で親しまれている。古越前の商圏は北海道までの日本海沿岸と近畿の一部に及んでいるが，近世に入ると瀬戸･美濃･唐津･有田のすぐれた陶磁器の流入によって，一地方窯に転落し，農村･漁村を対象とした雑器生産に低迷した。…

※「越前おはぐろ壺」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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