Small Earthenware Tanuki Bell antique seto plate Larger: H

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Sumiyama Pottery Village is a cooperative founded by eight potters in an abandoned mountain village in Uji

Honnoji Temple(Tokyo)

and in 1994 he received the Fukuoka City Board of Education Chairman Award at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition

The chasen is tulip shaped and split from one piece of bamboo into small prongs

Small Earthenware Tanuki Bell antique seto plate Larger: H*SHIPPING OPTIONS VARY DEPENDING ON THE DESTINATION, PLEASE SCROLL TO THE END OF THIS LISTING FOR MORE DETAILS. This listing is for a small earthenware tanuki bell. He is holding the customary sake bottle and promissory note, and sports a large straw hat. Traditionally tanuki were portrayed as sleek creatures much like kitsune, however these rotund types can be traced back to the latter part of the Edo Period. The promissory note and straw hat are a