I’m very busy for my Kamakura exhibition for next week. I’m going to squeeze in some time to show you a couple of pieces, my first “Kamakura Red” work out of my electric kiln here in Japan. I shipped one of my Skutt kilns from California, USA to Yokohama, ... Continue Reading
I went to a workshop of Jeff Oestreich on Saturday, February 28 at the Trax Gallery in Berkeley, CA: http://www.traxgallery.com/. He is born in 1947, and is a ceramic artist who lives in Taylors Falls, Minnesota. He studied at the Bemidji State University, and the University of M ... Continue Reading
Masakazu Kusakabe-san and Marc Lancet gave a workshop together on Spetember 13 in Santa Clara at ClayPlanet. They wrote a book together about Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics and built the Dancing Wood Fire Kiln at Solano College in California. Marc Lancet is the Director of the Dep ... Continue Reading
I made this “Oribe”plate at the Nippon Tougei Club. In the mid-sixteenth century, the taste of ceramics changed from Chinese ceramics to domestically manufactured wares, or “wamono”. Sen no Rikyuo refined this change: the aesthetic of “wabi-cha̶ ... Continue Reading
Some new results from my work in America. Glazed horsehair, fumed,crazed Raku bowl. The other side, front or back of the glazed horsehair Raku bowl. The foot of the glazed horsehair Raku bowl. Glazed, fumed decorated horsehair bowl. The foot of the bowl. Continue Reading
On Saturday, I did my first oil kiln firing in the kiln from Mr.Sato. This is the motor with the flu. Here you can adjust the amount of oxygen, so the oil will burn well and to its fullest. When you see black smoke coming out of the chimney, you increase the air/oxygen. You al ... Continue Reading
Some results from the horsehair firing in an oil kiln. Tall s-line vase. A bowl plate. The colors of the ferric chloride developed well. A round little vase. “Cloudy sky” bowl plate. Square Vase. You clearly can see the smoke from the burning of the horsehair in ... Continue Reading
I checked out the Mishima technique with my new work from the Nippon Tougei Club in Tokyo. This style of pottery is named after a place in Japan that has nothing to do with its production: the Mishima style (slip inlay style). As far back as 1636, there was a certain calendar pu ... Continue Reading
Last Saturday, I went to a workshop from Masakazu Kusakabe-san at the Sacred Heart International School in Tokyo, where Steve Tootell is the head of Creative and Performing Arts. Steve has his own wonderful ceramic studio in the school and organizes all kinds of pottery workshop ... Continue Reading
These are 2 “Shino chawan” bowls I made at the Nippon Tougei Club in Tokyo. They have bowls for men, the big bowls and you have bowls for women, the smaller bowls. Then you have winter bowls, high and smaller, so, the “Matcha” tea will not cool that fast. ... Continue Reading
