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The inscription on the outside of the box lid attributes this water jar (mizusashi) to the fifth master of the Raku workshop, Sonyu (d. 1716). The inscription on the inside of the lid, bearing a black "Raku" seal that resembles Sonyu's, gives the five-character phrase written in relief of the jar. The famous phrase, derived from the "Analects" of Confucius, appears on the first clause of Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution, issued in A.D. 604: "Harmony is to be valued." The ideal of harmony (wa) was emphasized by Edo-period tea-ceremony theory, in part under the influence of the revival of Confucian studies by the Tokugawa government.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
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