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Happy Eid-ul-fitr everyone!

AT with requested for PiriHon,

and I can't resist putting Pre-colonial Philippines stuff to the couple because we need more Pre-colonial Philippines stuff.
In exchange I get to request Indonesia and Philippines doing Eat Bulaga games : Indonesia Pintar (Pinoy Henyo)

=> Luzon Jars

Paul Kekai Manansala shares in his blog and book, Quest for the Dragon and Bird Clan that sacred clay jars, made to hold tea, had several markings on them that distinguished them as hailing from the northern island of Luzon in the Philippines. In Japan, the clay pots from the Philippines were called Rusun-yaki and highly valued. One of the markings was the baybayin of LA. Manansala writes that the LA baybayin symbol means the cosmic tree of life and is of the bird clan.

Jars have a long history of sacred and medicinal use in the region of the Philippines and Borneo.

To the present-day, heirloom jars, some massive in size, continue to have spiritual and prestige value among indigenous peoples in the region.

When the Sultan of Brunei was offered the equivalent of $100,000 to part with his sacred jar, he said that no offer would be sufficient. Water from the jar was believed to have special magical properties and visiting farmers from as far as the Bisayas in the Philippines were said to have come to obtain a little magic water for their fields.

For the Japanese, the Luzon jar was important because it was the only vessel capable of storing high-quality tea to their liking. From various reports, the jars also appeared to have been viewed as having medicinal and spiritual properties.

These Luzon clay jars were not only considered sacred but were so valued that they were of high value and even further embelished with gold:

"Rusun ("Luzon") Sukezaemon's story is well-known in Japan. The Sakai merchant brought back 50 Luzon jars and sold them to agents of the Shogun. He became fabulously rich and built a mansion that put the local castles to shame.

That the Luzon jars were made in Luzon is quite clear from the Tokiko, a work on the Namban, or Southern, ceramics trade.
The Luzon jars are marked as Rusun-tsukuru "made in Luzon" and all the jars from the south are manufactured with "Namban clay." Shogun Hideyoshi had a tsubo or pot purposely manufactured in Luzon during his reign.

... Some examples of these holy jars have been found in Japanese collections. One piece brought from Japan to the Ethnographical Museum matches quite perfectly the description provided by de Morga. It is of brownish color earthenware and small in size. De Morga says of the clay pots purchased by the Japanese that they "overlay them externally with fine gold embossed with great skill, and enclose them in cases of brocade."

In a similar way, maybe to compensate for their unsightly appearance, the Sultan of Brunei's talking jar was "generally enveloped in gold brocade."
The Ethnographical Museum piece was said to be made of composite pieces welded together with the joints, apparently at a latter time, overlayed with gold.

(See more info Luzon Jars by Paul Kekai Manansala) Source :baybayinalive.blogspot.com/201…

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Happy Eid-ul-fitr everyone!

AT with requested for PiriHon,

and I can't resist putting Pre-colonial Philippines stuff to the couple because we need more Pre-colonial Philippines stuff.
In exchange I get to request Indonesia and Philippines doing Eat Bulaga games : Indonesia Pintar (Pinoy Henyo)

=> Luzon Jars

Paul Kekai Manansala shares in his blog and book, Quest for the Dragon and Bird Clan that sacred clay jars, made to hold tea, had several markings on them that distinguished them as hailing from the northern island of Luzon in the Philippines. In Japan, the clay pots from the Philippines were called Rusun-yaki and highly valued. One of the markings was the baybayin of LA. Manansala writes that the LA baybayin symbol means the cosmic tree of life and is of the bird clan.

Jars have a long history of sacred and medicinal use in the region of the Philippines and Borneo.

To the present-day, heirloom jars, some massive in size, continue to have spiritual and prestige value among indigenous peoples in the region.

When the Sultan of Brunei was offered the equivalent of $100,000 to part with his sacred jar, he said that no offer would be sufficient. Water from the jar was believed to have special magical properties and visiting farmers from as far as the Bisayas in the Philippines were said to have come to obtain a little magic water for their fields.

For the Japanese, the Luzon jar was important because it was the only vessel capable of storing high-quality tea to their liking. From various reports, the jars also appeared to have been viewed as having medicinal and spiritual properties.

These Luzon clay jars were not only considered sacred but were so valued that they were of high value and even further embelished with gold:

"Rusun ("Luzon") Sukezaemon's story is well-known in Japan. The Sakai merchant brought back 50 Luzon jars and sold them to agents of the Shogun. He became fabulously rich and built a mansion that put the local castles to shame.

That the Luzon jars were made in Luzon is quite clear from the Tokiko, a work on the Namban, or Southern, ceramics trade.
The Luzon jars are marked as Rusun-tsukuru "made in Luzon" and all the jars from the south are manufactured with "Namban clay." Shogun Hideyoshi had a tsubo or pot purposely manufactured in Luzon during his reign.

... Some examples of these holy jars have been found in Japanese collections. One piece brought from Japan to the Ethnographical Museum matches quite perfectly the description provided by de Morga. It is of brownish color earthenware and small in size. De Morga says of the clay pots purchased by the Japanese that they "overlay them externally with fine gold embossed with great skill, and enclose them in cases of brocade."

In a similar way, maybe to compensate for their unsightly appearance, the Sultan of Brunei's talking jar was "generally enveloped in gold brocade."
The Ethnographical Museum piece was said to be made of composite pieces welded together with the joints, apparently at a latter time, overlayed with gold.

(See more info Luzon Jars by Paul Kekai Manansala) Source :baybayinalive.blogspot.com/201…

Philippines OC design by
Brunei Darussalam OC design by
Timor Leste OC design by
Indonesia aph and Malaysia aph based on Himaruya's sketch. (himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-e…