> Like the pale yellow of oranges and pomelos (suddenly resembling the pale yellow of barrel-shaped citrons) > Swaying tender green upon fresh paulownia (comparable to young paulownia leaves) > Morning dew dripping with the luster of jade (also like the emerald gleam of jade stone) > Accumulating flowing yellow in the yellow dew (like dew-laden blossoms) > The dark fragrance of golden chestnuts (subtly carrying the scent of grain and millet) > Some with yellow and white piled sand (some blending or layering white sand into the yellow) > Resembling ripe pears, delightfully edible (the effect like delicious fragrant yellow pears) > Or with firmness deep in the bone (or using purple clay as the body) > Coated with slip that generates luster (the exterior covered with slip, smooth and lustrous as lacquer) > Those marvelous transformations in the firing (there are also wondrous kiln changes) > Cannot be named by a single color (even more impossible to distinguish with one color tone) > Like iron, like stone (resembling iron yet似 stone) > Is it jade? Is it metal? (Is it jade? Or is it metal? Difficult to discern) > Embodying proper refinement in a single vessel (possessing beautiful and harmonious proper color tones) > Having complete beauty in three sections (the vessel form like a well-proportioned person) > Viewing from afar (gazing from a distance) > Magnificent as bronze vessels displayed in a bright hall (gleaming like important ritual vessels arranged in the reception hall) > Examining closely (observing carefully) > Brilliant as jade with floating essence (also like the refined purity of beautiful jade) > How can the Pearl of Sui or the Jade of Zhao compare to such treasured distinction? (truly comparable to jewels and treasures in their preciousness!) The description of purple clay colors can truly be said to be exhaustively vivid. The Japanese scholar Okura Tada (Genpō) wrote in his *Teapot Catalogue*: "Distinguishing clay colors is extremely difficult! Each pot differs, brilliant as the stars in the heavens, impossible to name and describe." This speaks to the rich and varied colors of purple clay. Among them, vermilion, purple, and rice yellow are the fundamental colors of purple clay wares, while vermilion has gradations of light and dark, and purple has variations of deep and...