The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 15, 2025

Spherical stoneware jar with an opening at the top flaring out into the lip of the jar. A rough texture covers the jar, colored light brown on our left and a lighter brown in a circle outlined on the lower left. To our right light green streaks into medium-grey. Texturing spots show through the glaze as white. A slight impression, as if made by a band, runs horizontally around the jar.

Jar

late 1900s

Tsujimura Shirō

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki style)
Overall: 50 x 54 cm (19 11/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2000.158
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Tsujimura Shirō has seven kilns in the hills outside the city of Nara.

Description

The surface of Tsujimura Shirō’s jar features a rough texture from grains of feldspar in the clay as well as designs created by wood ash during firing, with an aesthetic result that is in keeping with the Japanese tradition of subdued rusticity known as wabi-sabi.
  • ?–2000
    T. Dixon Long [1933–2022], San Francisco Bay area, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2000–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).
  • {{cite web|title=Jar|url=false|author=Tsujimura Shirō|year=late 1900s|access-date=15 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.158