According to a survey conducted by the museum, it seems that the national treasure of the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, "Colored Clay Incense Furnace," was made by a unique technique, such as forming the neck of a kiji by stacking strips of clay.
It is attracting the attention of experts as a reminder of the outstanding technique of Ninsei Nonomura, a potter in the early Edo period.
The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art's "Color Painting Incense Burner" is a pheasant-shaped incense burner made by Ninsei Nonomura, a potter in the early Edo period, and is designated as a national treasure.
It features brightly colored wings and a straight tail, but until now it was not known in detail how the pheasant was formed.
This time, when the museum examined the structure of the incense burner in detail, it was found that something like a seam was found on the inner part of the neck, and it seems that a number of strips of clay were layered to form the neck part.
In addition, traces of clay scraping were found inside the "tail" part.
The incense burner was first made by dividing it into three parts, the "head and neck," "body," and "tail," and it seems that the clay was joined together before it was completely dried, and then the joints were scraped off.
Hiroharu Murase, a curator of the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, who was in charge of the survey, said, "I feel the strong enthusiasm of the author, Ninsei Nonomura, when I dared to challenge a difficult technique. It led to the expression of the unique appearance of the pheasant as if I was angry. I'm doing it. "