Living with Japanese Pottery

There is no other country in the world with the tremendous variety of arts and crafts then Japan; that a big statement to make, yet it’s true. Region to region one will find unique cultural creations, often dating back centuries, that are all dependent on local materials. That rings truer for Japanese pottery then all other crafts. The clay from Shigaraki is completely different then the clay from Mashiko or Bizen or Hagi or Karatsu, etc. And that is one key element for what makes Japanese pottery so special and cherished/collected the world over.

For me, I started out as a collector, then a writer and then opened a yakimono gallery, yakimono is something that’s fired, in the late 1990s. I am grateful to my father for supporting me in opening this gallery. Living with and using daily Japanese pottery has not only nourished my body yet also has delighted my senses and spirit to such a plane where these daily activities enter into a world of divinity and beauty.