Tokoname ash-glazed sake bottle by Yamada Jōzan III (1924–2005), Living National Treasure for Tokoname teapots. 

This sake bottle or sake jar has slightly thicker and tsubo - like form with interesting firing that covers most of the bottle leaving the neck and mouth unglazed and having a thin line or burnt area seratating the unglazed and ash glazed areas. 

The bottle comes with the original signed wooden box, original cloth, larger cloth and two news paper clippings of the artist. 

The wooden box reads "Tokoname-ware sake jar", where sake jar is slightly more specific vessel for sake than the traditional sake bottle. Sake jar has the same function but it has different kind of history and slighty different shape such as thicker form and the mouth is wider but has been tilted slightly sideways for better pouring. 

The larger cloth that cames with the box has a written text "Yamada Jozan, Tokkuri, Tokoname". The smaller cloth has artist signature "Yamada Jozan 3rd" and the bottle is signed "Yamada Jozan 3rd". The wooden box and larger cloth shows signs of age and dirt. 

The bottle is in excellent undamaged condition without repairs or odors. 

• Height: 13 cm
• Diameter widest: 9.5 cm
• Late Showa or early Heisei era (1980s to 1990s)

Jōzan III was one of the key postwar Tokoname potters, trained under Jōzan I and II and active from the 1950s onward. He was designated a Living National Treasure in 1998.