Explore Japanese Ceramics

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Arita is known as a pottery locality producing artistic porcelain. While other pottery programs offer “Pottery” making, in Arita, you will be experiencing making of “Porcelain”.
On weekdays, you can see and learn in the studio, and with a little luck, can appreciate the professionals’ working.
Beginners can also enjoy this program.

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In this tour, you will visit Tajimi in Gifu prefucture, a very popular pottery town especially famous for the variation of glazes such as Shino and Oribe. Potters at the beginner level can enjoy this program. You will make pottery with an electric wheel, surrounded by rich green nature. The gallery next to the working [...]

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Bizen is famous as a pottery place of unglazed stoneware called ‘Yakishime’.
Your works will be fired in a traditional way of using straws, and the trace of the straws sometimes remains as reddish fire mark. We call this ‘Hidasuki’, and regard as one of the characteristics of Bizen ware.
This program is good for the beginners, [...]

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You will visit Mashiko, one of the most popular pottery localities in Japan, and famous for a spirit of ‘Mingei’ to enjoy making pottery with a wheel. You can fully appreciate the world of a well-known potter, Shoji Hamada by making pottery seeing Hamada’s old house next to his old Noborigama. This program is good [...]