Japanese Pottery Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
Arita Pottery Fair: The Usual Dates, and How to...
The Arita Pottery Fair runs, in most years, from 29 April to 5 May in Arita, Saga. It is the largest pottery fair in Japan: over 400 stalls along about...
Arita Pottery Fair: The Usual Dates, and How to...
The Arita Pottery Fair runs, in most years, from 29 April to 5 May in Arita, Saga. It is the largest pottery fair in Japan: over 400 stalls along about...
Japanese Pottery Marks: How to Identify the Mak...
Turn a piece over and you may find the maker's signature. The three ways a mark is made, where to look on the foot ring, and what the inscription on...
Japanese Pottery Marks: How to Identify the Mak...
Turn a piece over and you may find the maker's signature. The three ways a mark is made, where to look on the foot ring, and what the inscription on...