Last week I was in Holland. It was wonderful to be with my family especially after such a long time. On Friday December the 9th I went to the Opening reception of the Japanese Exhibition of 15 Mashiko potters at the Tiendschuur Museum in the city Tegelen. It was organized to hel ... Continue Reading
On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by a significant earthquake. The world-famous pottery village, Mashiko, about 90km northeast from Tokyo was also heavily hit and the potters’ houses, kilns, workshops and their works were severely damaged. Mashiko has a 10,000 year old pott ... Continue Reading
Two weeks ago I received my new spray booth. The old one was too small for my big work. I can use it now after some minor installation problems. In the meantime, it is almost a month ago that I wrote a blog. I have been very busy. First of course, I have my radiation every weekd ... Continue Reading
Watch the wonderful dance performance by KAN-ICHI-san for the opening of my exhibition at the Toko Gallery in Mashiko! The movie is made by Rob Oudendijk and Yuka Hayashi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnyUNEK90Ls A movie made of my show by Steve Toote ... Continue Reading
The opening reception of my ceramics exhibition at the Toko Gallery in Mashiko was on Saturday November 27, 2010. The title is: “Wings, Love is a bird she needs to fly”. It is always quite a work to set up the whole show, but very satisfying when you see the result an ... Continue Reading
- Yixing Ceramic Museum: Today, I received the news from Guangzhen “Po” Zhou, that my Kamakura Red Teapot is received by the Yixing Ceramics Museum and permanently accepted in their special exhibition hall for international teapots! This is wonderful. Unfortunately, ... Continue Reading
Today, I finally visited the Kamakura Treasure Museum. It is situated on the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine grounds in a beautiful setting surrounded by lots of trees and of course, the autumn colors were astounding, especially the yellow from the Gingko tree. The featured ex ... Continue Reading
Yesterday, we went to an exposition from Yamato Tomoko, a friend of mine who lives in Mashiko. Now, she had a show in Tokyo in the Brocken Gallery, so we were able to go. It is a very modern gallery from concrete, nice and clean in a normal neighborhood with all houses. Tomoko-s ... Continue Reading
Last week, I had an interview with the head of the Gotoh family, Gotoh Keiko. This family is one of the two families left who have been sculpting Buddhist images since the Kamakura Period and is heir to the craftsmanship handed down from father to son for 28 generations. But now ... Continue Reading
Kamakura has of course a Kamakura Bori Museum: Kamakura Bori Kaikan. It is situated in the middle of the city on the main street on the way to the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Kamakura’s most important shrine, which was founded by Monamoto Yoriyoshi in 1063, and enlarged ... Continue Reading
