Japanese Pottery Articles

Plates laid on linen — a black plate stacked on a pale blue foliate rimmed plate, a gray dish carved with a spiral, and an amber foliate plate. Cutlery to the left, kiwi at lower right

Microwave and Dishwasher Safe Japanese Pottery:...

Can pottery by an individual maker go in the microwave? Across the 73 makers nokaze carries, 44% say yes to the microwave, 33% to the dishwasher and 7% to the...

Microwave and Dishwasher Safe Japanese Pottery:...

Can pottery by an individual maker go in the microwave? Across the 73 makers nokaze carries, 44% say yes to the microwave, 33% to the dishwasher and 7% to the...

A white rimmed plate carved with radiating ridges, holding turmeric rice with an egg yolk, curry, red onion and a cherry tomato, with mimosa blurred behind

Large Japanese Plates: Choosing Size, Shape and...

Past seven sun, a plate becomes one you buy after deciding what will go on it. One sun is about 3.03cm. Seven sun takes a main course for one, eight...

Large Japanese Plates: Choosing Size, Shape and...

Past seven sun, a plate becomes one you buy after deciding what will go on it. One sun is about 3.03cm. Seven sun takes a main course for one, eight...

Fluted porcelain plates and mugs by TATA pottery studio laid out on stone, hand-painted with a blue rabbit, a sleeping cat and scattered red and yellow flowers

TATA pottery studio | The Charming Kyoto Porcel...

TATA pottery studio is a two-person unit: ceramic artist Daiki Tanaka, who forms with moulds and the wheel, and painter Katsura Tanabe, who still works at a century-old kiln in...

TATA pottery studio | The Charming Kyoto Porcel...

TATA pottery studio is a two-person unit: ceramic artist Daiki Tanaka, who forms with moulds and the wheel, and painter Katsura Tanabe, who still works at a century-old kiln in...

Left, a large blue-and-white ornamental jar in an Arita garden, painted with indigo waves and vermilion peonies. Right, the brick kiln-chimney monument at Hasami Ceramics Park, lettered CERAMICS PARK HASAMI

Arita vs Hasami Porcelain: Why the Same White P...

Arita in Saga and Hasami in Nagasaki are neighbouring porcelain towns across a prefectural border. They use the same Amakusa porcelain stone and the same sometsuke techniques, and until around...

Arita vs Hasami Porcelain: Why the Same White P...

Arita in Saga and Hasami in Nagasaki are neighbouring porcelain towns across a prefectural border. They use the same Amakusa porcelain stone and the same sometsuke techniques, and until around...

Left, the Kasama Himatsuri sign, its KASAMAYAKI HIMATSURI lettering set in a mosaic of pottery shards. Right, a giant ceramic tanuki on a Mashiko street, holding up a Mashiko sign, with a large white-trickled jar at its feet

Mashiko vs Kasama Pottery: How Two Neighbouring...

Kasama in Ibaraki and Mashiko in Tochigi sit side by side across a prefectural border, and Mashiko was born from Kasama: in the 19th century, Otsuka Keizaburo opened a kiln...

Mashiko vs Kasama Pottery: How Two Neighbouring...

Kasama in Ibaraki and Mashiko in Tochigi sit side by side across a prefectural border, and Mashiko was born from Kasama: in the 19th century, Otsuka Keizaburo opened a kiln...

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Oseibo: Choosing Japanese Pottery as a Year-End...

With oseibo, the Japanese year-end gift, you know who it is for but not what to send. Food divides opinion; household things say too much about your own taste. Pottery...

Oseibo: Choosing Japanese Pottery as a Year-End...

With oseibo, the Japanese year-end gift, you know who it is for but not what to send. Food divides opinion; household things say too much about your own taste. Pottery...