Gianfranco, a European Designer, Reflects on Japanese Craft and Its Future Introduction Why does Japanese craf…
The Butterfly Effect: Sori Yanagi and the Art of Appreciation The saying goes that you shouldn’t meet yo…
Alongside the first-time English publication of his essays, an exhibition on the Mono-ha artist surveys his ex…
The white star is particularly celebrated in Japan and has inspired various artists, whose works are featured …
You can tell that September was the busiest time at work when all I could manage to write about was putting to…
‘Are you a collector or a maker?’ a chatty chap asked me during a ceramics exhibition months ago. …
Frequent JLA contributor Alice Gordenker shares her appreciation for a type of Japanese antique porcelain that…
Levitation is among the miraculous feats ascribed to a child prince who lived more than a 1,400 years ago and …
Senna Misawa didn’t originally intend on becoming an Edo Kiriko craftsman. Unlike most artisans in Japan, she …
When Yuki Sakamoto joined Horiguchi Kiriko in 2017 at the age of 18, he was at the time Japan’s youngest Edo K…
