An exquisite Tonaki bottle produced at Tsuboya kilns during the Ryukyu Kingdom period. This distinctive vessel, a type of flask used primarily in ritual contexts to hold sacred rice wine, is shaped in the form of an angled gourd with a sharply defined waist. The surface is divided between green glaze and amber glaze.

Near the upper body, bamboo leaves are painted in iron glaze, over which fine white slip dots have been applied using the icchin (slip-trailing) technique. The decoration, as if droplets of rain clinging to leaves, seems to encapsulate the moist and fragrant air that drifts through moments of celebration and quiet devotion on these islands.

We have applied excellent gin-tsukuroi (silver restoration) to the rim and a chip on the shoulder. In addition, minor scratches and kiln flaws are present, but the vessel remains free of internal staining or odour.