Spring in the hills where I live in the US is beautiful. Everything turns greens because of the rain, which is plentiful in this season. In summer it will all turn yellow where there are no sprinkler systems. Enjoy the following pictures: I feel very fortunate to be able to ... Continue Reading
Toki City sewer lid. Some tile decoration in the sidewalk of Toki City. Enormous Setoguro Teabowl in front of the Tajimi Station. On the other side, an enormous “mizusashi” waterpot from in Kiseto ware. Continue Reading
Arakawa Toyozo was a “National Living Treasure” because of his exquisite Shino and Setoguro ceramics works. He rediscovered the Shino ware. They said Shino ware was produced in Seto, but he found shards in Mino to prove that the Shino wares were fired around Toki and Tajimi C ... Continue Reading
I went to the Mino area with their famous pottery of Shino, Oribe, Yellow Seto “Kiseto”, and Seto Black “Setoguro. The Mino area is a little northwest of Kyoto, near Nagoya, with its center of Toki city and Tajimi city. They manufactured pottery of representativ ... Continue Reading
It has been a while again, but I went to The Netherlands and Venice and Florence in Italy, because my husband attended a medical conference in Venice. What a beautiful cities! Incredible! And full of art! Florence was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1865 to 1870. A cente ... Continue Reading
My husband got me information about this amazing little museum in Kamakura. We live now for a year in Kamakura and you think you have seen it all, but there are still so many things to discover in this historic town. This museum is a refined, elegant Japanese-style house which is ... Continue Reading
Elephants in Thailand hold a revered place in society, because of their symbolic importance to monarchs, religion, and the nation as a whole. A ceramic sculptured elephant. Thai tradition abounds with examples of the elephant playing an important role in the workings of the King ... Continue Reading
I saw some beautiful pottery in some museums and in temples. Especially, the Suan Pakkad Palace Museum and the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok had some wonderful pieces. But also, often you were not allowed of course to take pictures. So, I got some pictures from catalogues. This i ... Continue Reading
On our way back to Japan, we made a stopover in Thailand. It is unbelievable what a human can make! Here is just a tiny small example of what we saw. It is all so beautiful and so intricately made. The colored pieces are almost all ceramic used as tiles and little pieces of ceram ... Continue Reading
The cherry blossoms were in full bloom in the beginning of April in the Tokyo area. It is a beautiful sight! Cherry blossoms, SAKURA, are the most beloved flowers by the Japanese. They symbolize the transience of life which is meshed well with the teachings of Buddhism, because ... Continue Reading
