A World of Dreams: A History of Yachimun, Okinawa’s Traditional Pottery
One of the most striking features of Okinawa’s traditional architecture must surely be their tiled roofs. Art critic and philosopher Yanagi Sōetsu certainly thought so: In an essay from his posthum...
Mashiko Ware: A Journey Through Japan’s Heartland of Ceramics
Some sixty miles north of Tokyo is a village deep in the mountains. It is a quiet, bucolic place for most of the year, swathes of fields and farms interspersed with forests and more concentrated ar...