Ceramics and tea culture are both close to my heart so when Hosai Matsubayashi XVI invited me to practise pott…

My interest in Korean ceramics had been growing over the years, at first  as a way to better understand its Ja…

The yunomi is the workhorse of Japanese teaware. It’s the cup where you’ll be offered tea at a shop, a restaur…

Do tomatoes taste better when eaten from a nice Japanese ceramic plate? Objectively, no. But the experience of…

In a little coastal village in Chiba Prefecture, the ceramicist creates pieces marked by their territory and b…

Japanese ceramics are highly sought-after by pottery lovers everywhere. One of the many reasons for their endu…

A potter with only one year of full time training could produce mass produced tea bowls using a mold, using an…

Japanese lacquer – urushi – is one of the wonders of traditional Japanese craft. From the moment of its …

Kawai Kanjiro By Robert Yellin In the wake of the great tide of industrialism in the early part of this centur…