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 ...

The permanent collection at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum includes many fine examples of Chinese and Japanese export ware: Those pretty blue-and-white or polychrome pieces of porcelain, decorated with ...

Japan has long been a center of ceramic excellence, but in the 20th century many of its celebrated traditions began to change. An engaging new book, Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary ...

KAWAGOE, Japan — A neighborhood at the edge of the Tokyo metro area went one better than turning swords into plowshares. Its residents turned ceramic grenade casings into flower vases and garden ...

Kintsugi, the centuries-old Japanese pottery repair technique, turns broken ceramics into art using gold and lacquer while ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. A recently acquired work, "Fuka" by Japanese ceramic ...

Photo of Kamoda at home in Mashiko from 1974 with pots featuring his trademark red-green-white swirls set out before him, on p195 of Aoki Hiroshi, ed., Kamoda Shōji (Inshōsha, 2004). MINNEAPOLIS — ...

Opened in 1980, the Kyushu Ceramic Museum celebrates the historical, cultural and artistic importance of ceramics created in Kyushu with special attention paid to Saga and Nagasaki Prefectures. With ...

TOKYO "The wound is the place where the light enters you." These words, by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, sang in my head as I examined a simple ceramic bowl in a tiny cafe in a western suburb of ...

Editor’s Note: Artist Takashi Murakami is CNN Style’s latest guest editor. He has commissioned a series of features on identity. Potters in the Japanese town of Shigaraki have been producing sturdy ...