I have stumbled upon this old video on Vimeo. This was my first time listening to Bernard Leach talk (he would be 133 if he were alive). He is talking so passionately about handmade pottery.
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About this time of the year in the last five years, I had been busy wearing kimono and serving tea for 4 consecutive days, for the Senses from Japan event. Twice a year, in the
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Having read my blog post What is Kintsugi – Japanese Art of Broken Pottery, a friend of mine and a long-time tea ceremony practitioner Mr. John Dillon forwarded me this article. An artist Victor Solomon
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When I broke the lid of my favorite ceramic bowl a couple of years ago, I just couldn’t throw it away. “I should repair it with kintsugi!” So I bought a DYI kintsugi set at
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According to Wikipedia, “tatami is a type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms.” The surface of tatami is woven soft rush straw. Its fresh smell of straw, its soft/firm feeling…
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Two years ago I stumbled upon a Kickstarter project called “Study Woodworking in Japan!” You can learn Japanese woodworking in English? Intrigued, I pitched in a small amount. The project successfully raised enough money to
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If there were no lockdown, I would have visited my mother in Osaka and gone to see Bunraku this month. Well, no theater is open in Japan now. I just received email from National Bunraku
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