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



thin yellow-green glaze. The same with a combination of black and 

 gold glaze. The same with gold glaze. The same with black glaze. 

 The same with tea-colored (brownish) glaze and provided with ears. 

 The same with green-yellow glaze. The same with yellow glaze. The 

 same of the shape of a rice-kettle. The same with four nipples. 1 The 

 same with projecting bottom. The same called Usu-ito-giri. 2 The 

 same called Hi-tasuki. 3 The same with candy-brown 4 glaze. Mon- 

 rin. 5 Tegami. 6 Oil-pitchers. The same with ears. The same, Utsu- 

 mi and Daikei. 7 The same called Nasubi. 8 The same called Wari- 

 futa. 9 Various shapes of Bizen. Shapes of Iga, and other kinds. 



Of Mishima there are the following: Undecorated common ones 

 (muji-hira). The same, of the black variety of the country Go. 10 

 With painting of a trout (ayu). Various kinds with brush -marks 

 (hakeme). Old Mishima. Deep bowls (domburi). Various Mishima. 

 Gourd-shaped fire-holders with brush -mark. 



Of white porcelain, there are the following: Pitchers (katakuchi) . 

 Hand-jugs (te-bachi). Boat-shaped jugs (fune-bachi) . n Various bowls. 

 Tachimizu. Gourd-shaped fire-holders. Plain basins. Fire-holders 



1 /. e. knobs. The Chinese archaeologists avail themselves of the same expression 

 in describing the knobs on certain ancient bronze bells and metal mirrors. Com- 

 pare p. 36. 



2 1, e. cut with a thin thread. The thread was used to cut off the superfluous 

 clay at the bottom of the piece before removing the latter from the wheel, a con- 

 trivance first applied by the famous potter Toshiro of the thirteenth century (Brink- 

 ley, p. 266). The term is here simply used in opposition to the pieces with pro- 

 jecting bottom. 



3 1, e. vermilion cord; tasuki is a cord used for girding up the sleeves while work- 

 ing. These vessels doubtless had a cord brought out in relief around the neck, as 

 may be seen, e. g., also in Chinese terra cotta of Yi-hsing. 



4 A me or takane is a kind of jelly made from wheat or barley flour. 



8 Or Bun-rin. Brinkley (p. 319) mentions a tea-jar named Fun-rin cha-tsubo, 

 without explaining this designation. 



6 Jars with ears. 



7 Utsumi (Chinese: nei hai) means inland sea, and daikei (Chinese: t'a hai) 

 great sea; expressions to denote certain varieties of pottery. 



8 1, e. egg-plant. 



9 1, e. with divided lids. 



10 Chinese: Wu. Wu was the name of an ancient kingdom in China inhabited 

 by a non-Chinese stock of peoples and comprising the territory of the present prov- 

 ince of Kiangsu, the south of Anhui, and the north of ChSkiang and Kiangsi. An 

 ancient tradition has it that the Japanese called themselves descendants of the 

 ancestor of the kings of Wu (Chavannes, Les memoires historiques de Se-ma 

 Ts'ien, Vol. IV, p. 1), and the oldest cultural relations of Japan with China refer to 

 this region. The Japanese understand the name Wu (or Go according to their 

 pronunciation) in the sense of middle China, also as China in general, sometimes 

 more specifically as the region of the Yangtse Delta, or as Nanking. 



11 A jardiniere in the shape of a boat, of Shino pottery, is figured in Collection 

 Ch. Gillot, p. 104. 



