Experience Japan Pottery Making Tour with Bruce McWhinney

Experience Japan Pottery Making Tour with Bruce McWhinney

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Japan has long history of ceramics with pottery towns existing nationwide with variety of glaze, highly honed techniques and cross fertilization with other Japanese traditional cultures such as tea ceremony, flower arrangements and food.
This tour is designed for participants to experience the full pottery making process in 11 days. Highlight of this tour is that [...]

Anagama Firing in Tajimi

Anagama Firing in Tajimi

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In this program, you can charter an Anagama (cave/hole kiln) to fire your works. By using microwave kiln and hybrid kiln, you will be able to complete the process of forming to unloading as short as in 21 days.
Anagama is fueled with firewood and the length of the firing takes 3 days. Here, you will [...]

30-day pottery making in Mashiko

30-day pottery making in Mashiko

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In this program, you can enjoy making pottery at your pace, staying in an old Japanese house for 30 days in Mashiko, a pottery locality well known for Mingei movement. You can utilize a “COMPACT” wood fire kiln so that you can shorten your oven time. You can fire any works as long as they [...]

30-day pottery making in Seto

30-day pottery making in Seto

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This program is designed to experience and learn the traditional pottery making carried on in Akazu area, Seto. You will be staying at a pottery studio and learn to make casual Japanese dishes with old-established glazes. During the stay, you will be spending several hours working as a “Craftsman”, of course under the guidance of [...]

30-day pottery making in Tokoname

30-day pottery making in Tokoname

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If you would like to manufacture some artistic objects and/or large pieces at your pace, this program would be well-suited. You can use the studio any time you want, except midnight. Also, you can use the gas kiln to yourself twice during your stay; Once for biscuit firing and once for glost firing.
You will stay [...]

30-day pottery making in Tajimi

30-day pottery making program in Japan

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In this program, you will make tea utensils covered with traditional glazes for Mino pottery such as Shino and Oribe. You will start from wedging, and after completing the firing, you will have a tea ceremony at the pottery studio, using your own tea utensils. By experiencing tea ceremony, a traditional culture closely related to [...]

30-day pottery making in Arita

30-day pottery making in Arita

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In this program, you will make pottery used in our daily lives, staying in Arita, a pottery locality famous for porcelain. You will use porcelain clay, form it with a wheel, and do the over glazed decoration. Experiencing this process would be very special especially for those who didn’t have a chance to make “porcelain” [...]

1 day tour in Arita

Visiting porcelain showroom in Arita

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This program is a combination of sightseeing and pottery making session in Arita, a well known pottery locality for artistic porcelain.
You will visit showrooms at Kakiemon and Imaemon, potteries famous for producing Living National Treasures, and some more that also possess a long tradition of exporting beautiful porcelains overseas. At the end of this tour, [...]

1 day tour in Tajimi

Takata/Onada district

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This program is a combination of sightseeing and pottery making session in Mino area, a pottery locality famous for glazes such as Shino, Oribe. You will visit a pottery studios which are not usually open to tourists, and with luck, you get to watch skilled craftsmen at work, crafting pieces precisely by hand.

1 day tour in Mashiko

Mashiko Reference Collection Museum

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This program is a combination of sightseeing and pottery making session in Mashiko, a pottery locality famous for ‘Mingei’ movement. You will first visit Mashiko Reference Collection Museum and see the collections of Hamada Shoji, a Living National Treasure. Then it’s time to get down to hands on fun of pottery making. You’ll move to [...]

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