Japanese Pottery Articles
Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach: How East Met We...
The mingei movement began with the English potter Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, who crossed the sea with him. The kiln built at St Ives in 1920, the coining of...
Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach: How East Met We...
The mingei movement began with the English potter Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, who crossed the sea with him. The kiln built at St Ives in 1920, the coining of...
Medium Plates: Five Sun or Six, and What Each O...
Five and six sun are the sizes that come out most often in Japanese tableware. They work as side plates, hold a side dish for one, and double as breakfast...
Medium Plates: Five Sun or Six, and What Each O...
Five and six sun are the sizes that come out most often in Japanese tableware. They work as side plates, hold a side dish for one, and double as breakfast...
Square and Oblong Plates: Why Straight Edges Wo...
Put one square plate on a table of nothing but round ones and the outline sharpens. Square and oblong plates are ware you do not need many of. Sizes for...
Square and Oblong Plates: Why Straight Edges Wo...
Put one square plate on a table of nothing but round ones and the outline sharpens. Square and oblong plates are ware you do not need many of. Sizes for...
Artisan Fujiwara Akira: Pulling Bizen From the ...
Bizen ware carries no glaze, and yet the work of Fujiwara Akira is black. Hikidashi-guro draws the piece out of the kiln at 1,200°C and cools it fast; imbe-de paints...
Artisan Fujiwara Akira: Pulling Bizen From the ...
Bizen ware carries no glaze, and yet the work of Fujiwara Akira is black. Hikidashi-guro draws the piece out of the kiln at 1,200°C and cools it fast; imbe-de paints...
Mamezara and Small Plates: Sizes and What to Serve
The Japanese table is built not from one large plate but from several small ones lined up together. Here we set out the sizes of chopstick rests, mame-mamezara, mamezara and...
Mamezara and Small Plates: Sizes and What to Serve
The Japanese table is built not from one large plate but from several small ones lined up together. Here we set out the sizes of chopstick rests, mame-mamezara, mamezara and...
Ichirun Tobo: Reading Glaze as Landscape in Miy...
Ichirun Tobo is a studio run by a husband and wife in Miyazaki Prefecture. A landscape in blue, a landscape in green, the space between white and black, the afterglow...
Ichirun Tobo: Reading Glaze as Landscape in Miy...
Ichirun Tobo is a studio run by a husband and wife in Miyazaki Prefecture. A landscape in blue, a landscape in green, the space between white and black, the afterglow...