Japanese Pottery Articles

Serving freshly cooked rice from a tenmoku five-go donabe rice pot, its base left as bare clay

How to Choose a Donabe | Size, Glaze, First Use...

A donabe keeps cooking for about a minute after it comes off the flame. That slowness draws the sweetness out of rice and holds food warm once the pot reaches...

How to Choose a Donabe | Size, Glaze, First Use...

A donabe keeps cooking for about a minute after it comes off the flame. That slowness draws the sweetness out of rice and holds food warm once the pot reaches...

A pair chosen as a wedding gift: pink and pale blue rice bowls, two kohiki cups, flower-shaped chopstick rests and celebration chopsticks

Japanese Wedding Gift | A Pair, or One Piece Th...

A wedding gift in ceramic pays off not on the day you hand it over, but in the memory it leaves over the years that follow. A mug is picked...

Japanese Wedding Gift | A Pair, or One Piece Th...

A wedding gift in ceramic pays off not on the day you hand it over, but in the memory it leaves over the years that follow. A mug is picked...

Furutani Pottery kohiki pieces laid out on linen: octagonal plates, rinka bowls, rice bowls and a katakuchi

Artisan Furutani Pottery | Making Kohiki White ...

Furutani Pottery in Shigaraki, Shiga makes kohiki: iron-rich red clay covered with white slip. Founded in 1970 under the phrase close to daily life, they fire twice at low heat...

Artisan Furutani Pottery | Making Kohiki White ...

Furutani Pottery in Shigaraki, Shiga makes kohiki: iron-rich red clay covered with white slip. Founded in 1970 under the phrase close to daily life, they fire twice at low heat...

抹茶碗の選び方|サイズ・形・産地で選ぶ、はじめの一碗

How to Choose a Matcha Bowl | Size, Shape and R...

A matcha bowl is whisked in and drunk from. The standard is 11 to 13cm across and 7 to 9cm tall, and those dimensions come from what the tool has...

How to Choose a Matcha Bowl | Size, Shape and R...

A matcha bowl is whisked in and drunk from. The standard is 11 to 13cm across and 7 to 9cm tall, and those dimensions come from what the tool has...

Hands in the workshop carving shinogi one line at a time with a kanna, the plate resting on the potter's knee, the finished rim already evenly grooved

Artisan Masanori Yamamoto | Carving Only Shinog...

Almost everything Masanori Yamamoto makes in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture, is shinogi. In a kiln inherited from his grandfather, plates, bowls, mugs and chopstick rests are cut by the same hand...

Artisan Masanori Yamamoto | Carving Only Shinog...

Almost everything Masanori Yamamoto makes in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture, is shinogi. In a kiln inherited from his grandfather, plates, bowls, mugs and chopstick rests are cut by the same hand...

A Kasama bowl and plate with indigo glaze pooling from centre to rim, stacked with two wooden spoons on linen. A black ridged plate and white fluted dish sit behind

Kasama Ware: Japan's Most Free-Spirited Pottery...

Focusing on Kasama ware, known for its artistic freedom, this summary introduces the region's innovative pottery scene and the rising star, Tomokazu Kawasumi. Embracing a culture with "no specific rules,"...

Kasama Ware: Japan's Most Free-Spirited Pottery...

Focusing on Kasama ware, known for its artistic freedom, this summary introduces the region's innovative pottery scene and the rising star, Tomokazu Kawasumi. Embracing a culture with "no specific rules,"...