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Wajima mihon-wan Wajima lacquer ware is known for its toughness. The base wood is thin like a paper, even the light comes through. To enforce the edge, they cover it with cloth, layer a paste of ji-no-ko powder and lacquer, and polish. The repetition of varnish and polish, all the processes can reach 129. It takes months to a year … More Wajima Mihon-wan: the design sample bowls
Wajima Kirimoto is the company of Wajima lacquer ware based in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture. The producer is Tai’ichi Kirimoto, who creates beautiful table wares for everyday and a special occasion with his meisters. They produce the lacquer wares with traditional techniques from Wajima. Also, as they used to be specialized in wood processing, their products are not … More Wajima Kirimoto
Ogami, Yuki -Tamba ceramist Ogami, Yuki is the third generation of ceramist family in Tamba, Hyogo prefecture. He is very young and enthusiastic about his métier. His kiln locates in a region called Tachikui, Tamba where one of the six oldest kilns was established: Seto, Tokoname, Bizen, Echizen, and Tamba. Its origin goes back in the Heian … More Ogami Yuki – Tamba ceramist
FUJINO Sēichiro is a young, established lacquer artist who resides in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. He carves wood and creates texture on the surface with lacquer. He innovates traditional techniques and creates new forms of Urushi lacquerware. Urushi is a material which we can find in East Asia. It is one of the oldest craft materials … More Fujino Seiichiro -Urushi lacquer artist-
Aso Rando – earth ware ceramist- Aso, Rando is a young emerging ceramic artist. He was born in 1983 in Nara, Japan. He studied in Kanazawa college of Art majored in ceramic, exploring the expressions of the clay with firing, the origin of ceramic. Currently he settled down in Tokoname, Aichi prefecture, where one of the oldest kilns … More Aso Rando -an Artist of earth ware-
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 -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