Author: takako

Ando Ryosuke -Ceramic designer & Ceramist-

July 14, 2015

Ando, Ryosuke – Ceramic designer & Ceramist – ANDŌ, Ryosuke is a young emerging ceramic artist based in Aichi prefecture in Japan. He creates the ceramics with slip casting techniques, and his works have been awarded in many ceramic design competitions. His ceramic production is entirely by him: designing, making models, forming, firing. His works are classified into porcelain. Porcelain… More Ando Ryosuke -Ceramic designer & Ceramist-

Kabazaiku: Wild Cherry tree Bark crafts

July 1, 2015

Kabazaiku -Samurai craft- In the north of Japan, in Kakunodate in Akita prefecture, they produce one of well-known Japanese crafts with wild cherry tree bark: Kaba-zaiku. The bark surface is very rough in the beginning. The maister polishes it, and it reaches silver colour first, and later crimson colour. Then, they stick the thin bark to the base… More Kabazaiku: Wild Cherry tree Bark crafts