The recentry article about Arita
Bizen is at Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture. The Pottery of Bizen is mostly fired at lower temperatures. The Pottery of Bizen often has the warmth of the clay.
The recentry article about Bizen
I read “やきもの談義”-Having talk Masako Shirasu(collector of pottery, Essayist) with Kato Tokuro*. Kato Tokuro is the great Seto potter. (1898-1985) He was an intangible cultural asset.
白州正子さんと加藤唐九郎さんの『焼き物談義』をよみました。
In this book, Kato Tokuro said clay was very important, like food is important for cooking.
この本の中で加藤さんは、料理で素材が大切であるように、器にとって土がとても大切だと言っています。
Also, Kato Tokuro said it was difficult for him to make durable pottery with clay in southern Europe. It causes by the type of clay in southern Europe.
加藤さんは同時に南ヨーロッパの土は脆くて陶器が非常に作りづらかったと言っています。わたしの体験ではイタリアとポルトガルで購入したお皿はとても丈夫で、スペインのお皿はとても脆く数ヶ月で欠けてしまいました。南ヨーロッパでも場所によるのかもしれません。
Many Japanese potteries are durable. Even if I use the tableware washing machine.
Please try Japanese potteries that have warmness of touch because it made of clay!
(See The difference between Pottery and Porcelain)
日本の陶器は、高温で焼くこともできる土などもあり、比較的丈夫です。アメリカやヨーロッパでは決まった型の機械で作られた磁器が主に使われることが多いです。日本では土かららこだわった作家さんによる自由な形の陶器や磁器が作られることも多いです。
The recentry article about Mashiko
I went to visit Eki noriko's porcelains exhibition in Keio Department Store, Shinjuku, TOKYO
I bought Eki noriko's porcelains. Eki noriko lives Mashiko-machi Haga-gun, Tochigi, Japan.
The pottery's that I bought coler is like beautiful sea's blue.
The recentry article about Hagi
This magnet tools are made by金子 司さん. He is a potter in Hagi(萩). The pattern of pottery is made by using a dropper. The colored clay is dropped by a dropper.
萩焼の金子司さんのきのこのマグネットです。わたしはあまりおしゃれにコーディネートできていませんが(笑)、展示会場ではもっといろいろな色やデザインがあり、とても美しかったです。金子さんは、たまたま知り合いのお兄さまで日本橋での個展にお邪魔しました。アパレルブランドとコラボレーションしたり、美術館でインスタレーションをしています。アート性の高くおしゃれな作品です。東京ドームでのテーブルウエア展の萩焼のコーナーでも拝見しました(^^)
About Hagi pottery
The pottery shop that his potterys are on sale
The recentry article about Echizen
Hiroshi Teshigahara is the 3rd Ikebana Sogestu School headmaster and acclaimed filmmaker*. As the son of Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of Ikebana Sogetsu School, Hiroshi Teshigahara became the 3rd headmaster.
Hiroshi Teshigahara built Sogetsu Pottery Kiln in Echizen Town of Nyu-gun, Fukui Prefecture.
The pottery in Echizen is fired chiefly at higher temperatures. Therefore, the pottery in Echizen often has the warmth of clay. Hiroshi Teshigahara pottery often took on distorted shapes. I felt his pottery, the warmth of the clay from distorted shapes, even if glaze pottery.
*Hiroshi Teshigahara has another well-known face as an award-winning filmmaker. The adaption film of Kobo Abe’s novel with the same title, “Woman in the Dunes,” won numerous awards. Hiroshi passed away in 2001. He introduced Japanese traditional culture – ikebana, tea ceremony, and pottery worldwide.
The recentry article about Kutani
I visited to view cherry blossoms in a beautiful garden at hotel chinzanso in Tokyo.
It had Eisui Nogami's Kutaniware exhibision.
Eisui Nogami's Kutaniwares are brilliant and elegant.
お花見で訪れた江戸川橋の椿山荘。
野上映翆さんの九谷焼の展示をしていました!
華やかで、上品な作品でした。
椿山荘の荘厳な雰囲気、広大な庭園のグリーンと調和していました。