36 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. XII. 



plish clay, and the glaze is decorated in the style of nipples (chichimi 

 mbyo). They are much neater than Korean ware. As they are fired 

 under an intense heat, their shapes are well curved, and their sound is 

 metallic. They are all of Kukihori style. 



Old Ido {Furu-Ido or Ko-Ido), Green Ido {Ao-Ido), and Ido-waki 

 which are green and hard are manufactured in Eastern India. The 

 book Wa-Kan-cha-shi ("Records regarding Tea in Japan and China") 

 says that this pottery comes from India, and that even those pieces 

 said to be produced in Korea have come over from India; the assertion 

 of some that it is called Ido as being made in the style of a certain potter 

 Ido is erroneous ; Furu-Ido and Ao-Ido are entirely different from other 

 Ido both in clay and glaze. This explanation of the Book on Tea is 

 correct: the Ido mentioned above are of Indian make, and the other 

 Ido are Korean. 1 There are also Shiusan 2 Ido and Sowa 3 Ido which 

 appear to be kinds of pottery of India Ido. Their glaze is blistered and 

 of low grade. Ao-Ido is the celadon 4 of India. Among the objects 

 left in the temple Kin-chi-in by Todo Takatora 5 (i 556-1630), there are 

 also Ido which seem to be celadons (seiji). 



Namban Totoya 6 pottery has a blue-black glaze uncrackled. Its 

 clay is black and purplish, and its sound is metallic. Some have three 

 or four apertures 7 in the body, and others more. The old ones are 

 called Kaki-no-heta ("Persimmon-calyx"). Among this class, also 

 incense-boxes {kogo) and pitchers {mizusashi) are found. 



As regards Namban celadon {seiji), it has a black-purple clay and 

 green glaze {sei-yaku) running in white streams {tamari-yaku) here and 

 there. It has a metallic sound and is popularly called Muji Kumo- 

 tsuru or Un-kwaku, 8 or Hagi make. As regards the production of the 

 green, it is called Karatsu Kumo-tsuru. What the ancients called 

 Muji Kumo-tsuru is this. 



The pottery designated as Old Kumo-tsuru and Kumo-tsuru is a 

 production of the Namban. Its style of painting is fine, and the mark 



1 Regarding these Korean Ido see Brinkley, pp. 51-52. 



2 The name is composed of the two characters for "ship" (shiu, Jap. June) and 

 "mountain" (san, Jap. yama). The name is derived from Chou-shan, a place in the 

 province of Fukien, China, where a hard white porcelain was made. 



3 Transcribed in Katakana. 



4 Jap. seiji, "green porcelain," identical with the Chinese name for celadons. 

 Probably the celadons of Siam are meant here (T. H. Lyle, Notes on the An- 

 cient Pottery Kilns at Sawankalok, Siam. Journal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 

 XXXIII, 1903, pp. 238-245). 



6 A daimyo who served Nobunaga and then Hideyoshi and retired on his master's 

 death into the monastery Koyasan. 



6 Transcribed in Katakana. 



7 Lit. eyes. 



8 1, e. plain, with clouds and cranes, a favorite design in celadons. 



