Sake Bottle with Decoration of Pine and Bamboo

Light gray stoneware with mottled iron-brown glaze over wax-resist brushwork decoration, with artist’s mark impressed on the base

Ceramic

Off white (or very light gray) stoneware with ash coating and natural ash glaze; with signature reading "Ken" inscribed on the base before firing

Onda ware: light gray stoneware with pale olive glaze over brush-applied white slip enlivened with chatter marks on the exterior

Bizen-type ware; reddish stoneware with incised and combed decoration and with three bands of oxidized silver-foil embellishment

Sue ware: gray surfaced reddish-brown stoneware with incised decoration

Ceramic

Nabeshima enamelled ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

Gray stoneware with variegated clear, white, and pale lavender blue glazes over impressed decoration (so-called "mishima" technique); with incised signature of the artist reading "Makoto YABE" on the unglazed base, the surname written idiosyncratically

Light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and russet markings

Light gray stoneware with decoration in greenish-brown glaze over opaque, bluish white rice ash glaze

Off white (or very light gray) stoneware with ash coating and natural ash glaze; with signature of the artist reading "Ken" inscribed on the base before firing