Japanese Pottery Articles
Regions and kilns, techniques, how to choose and care for your pieces. Articles to start your journey into Japanese pottery.
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Why Hagi Ware Changes Color With Use
Why Hagi ware changes color as you use it: how soft clay and crazing take in tea and coffee, how glaze colo...
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Black Japanese Tableware Guide: Black Glaze, Hikidashi-guro and Lacquer for Food That Stands Out
Black is the tableware color that shows white rice, leafy greens and tomatoes most clearly. Black glaze and...
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Brown Japanese Pottery: Unglazed, Rust and Amber Glazes Compared
Brown pottery is the color of the clay itself. Unglazed Bizen yakishime, natural ash glaze melted from wood...
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Blue Japanese Tableware: Sometsuke, Gosu, Celadon and Ruri Glaze
Blue Japanese pottery is not only sometsuke, indigo painted on white. There are pieces with a single gosu l...
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Ichirun Tobo: Reading Glaze as Landscape in Miyazaki
Ichirun Tobo is a studio run by a husband and wife in Miyazaki Prefecture. A landscape in blue, a landscape...
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Japanese Pottery Glazes: The Main Types Explained
Japanese ceramics may share the same shape, yet each piece possesses a unique color and texture. This artic...
