Potters in the Japanese town of Shigaraki have been producing sturdy earthenware for more than 700 years – reddish pots, bowls and vessels made from the high-quality, iron-rich clay found in the ...

For more than 1,300 years, the Japanese ceramics industry has made a home here in the low hills that provide high-quality clay and ideal sites for kilns. During Japan’s long middle ages, craftsmen ...

The exhibition “Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan” includes more than 100 porcelain and stoneware vessels that vividly represent an era of highly diverse and accomplished ceramic production in ...

Takashi Murakami is on a roll. His next venture is curating an exhibition in New York featuring three local artists. We met up with the ceramicists to chat about their work and upcoming show. Last ...

The history of ceramics in Japan is intrinsically intertwined with cultural exchange. Like green tea, soba and udon noodles, the birthplace of Japanese ceramics is Kyushu, a historical hub of ...

A new exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum is an homage to unsteady hands and uncertain tempers, to chips and nicks, to the inconsistent and unfinished. In “Designed for Flowers: ...

In the ceramic world of early 20th-century Kyoto, Chinese ceramics, not Kyo-yaki (Kyoto-style pottery) were the rage of the day, and any potter worth a spin on the wheel strove to emulate them. In ...

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 3, Special Issue: Charting the Emerging Field of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology (September 2021), pp. 718-739 (22 pages) Japanese Gulch ...