Sasashima ware (笹島焼 ''Sasashima-yaki'') is a type of

Japanese pottery is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and Japanese art, art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. Types have included earthenware, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, and Blue and white porcelain, blue-and-white ware. Japan has an exception ...

from

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the list of cities in Japan, fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the List of ...

Owari province was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya. The province was created in 646. Owari bordered on Mikawa, Mino, and Ise Provinces. Owari and Mino provinces w ...

, later

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, central Japan.

History

It was based in the

Sasashima-chō is a neighbourhood around the area of Nagoya Station, today a part of Nakamura-ku, Nagoya is one of the 16 Wards of Japan, wards of Nagoya, Japan. As of October 1, 2019, the ward has an estimated population of 135,134 and a population density ...

neighbourhood, not far from

Nagoya Station is a major railway station in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is Japan's, and one of the world's largest train stations by floor area (410,000 m2), and houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). Much of this space ...

, today a part of

Nakamura-ku, Nagoya is one of the 16 Wards of Japan, wards of Nagoya, Japan. As of October 1, 2019, the ward has an estimated population of 135,134 and a population density of 8,290 persons per km2. The total area is 16.30 km2. History Nakamura Ward is famou ...

. It was produced from 1804 to 1923 in three generations. The first master was Maki Bunshichi, named Bokusai (1782–1857). He studied painting as well as sculpture. With his talent he tried different models, colours, and patterns on his works. He made tea and ''

sake Sake, , or saki, also referred to as Japanese rice wine, is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Despite the name ''Japanese rice wine'', sake, and indeed any East Asi ...

'' utensils and was praised as a master of his craft. He made Hagiyama pieces for the 12th Owari Lord Tokugawa Naritaka.

Characteristics

There are various stamps with ''Shinojima'' and ''Sasashima'' with various ''

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

'' characters. The square bowl at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum depicts a mythological whale or ''

makara Makara () is a legendary sea-creature in Hindu mythology. In Hindu astrology, Makara is equivalent to the Zodiac sign Capricorn. Makara appears as the vahana (vehicle) of the river goddess Ganga, Narmada, and of the god of the ocean, Varun ...

'' (摩竭 ; ''makatsu'') and at the rim a pierced

plum A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus, ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus'.'' Dried plums are often called prunes, though in the United States they may be labeled as 'dried plums', especially during the 21st century. Plums are ...

flower pattern. At the bottom are four feet and the stamp in a

calabash Calabash (; ''Lagenaria siceraria''), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvest ...

form with the name "Sasashima". In the same museum the ''

sencha is a type of Japanese green tea (, ) which is prepared by infusing the processed whole tea leaves in hot water. This is as opposed to matcha (), powdered Japanese green tea, where the green tea powder is mixed with hot water and therefore the ...

'' bowls with handle are done in a refined manner. On it is written "Yugetsu Kofu" which means "the moon is my friend and I am conversing with the wind", which can be traced back to a saying by a hermite. On the lid is written "bliss on the southern mountain, and from the eastern sea also comes bliss". Next to the ''kodai'' stamp is written his name. :File:Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum (91).jpg

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Culture in Nagoya History of Nagoya Japanese pottery Sasashima-chō {{japan-art-stub

History

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