Out of all of Japanese pottery master Kondo Takahiro’s works, the ones that came after the largest earthquake in his country’s history feel particularly resonant. As the disaster became known, 3/11 ...

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 ...

“Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics” at the Crocker Art Museum represents the pinnacle of contemporary Japanese ceramics. The freely expressed verve of the work celebrates intuitive ...

The exhibition “Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan” includes more than 100 porcelain and stoneware vessels that vividly represent an era of highly diverse and accomplished ceramic production in ...

On the inside of the bowl, where the viewer looks down at the lotus leaves and blossoms from above the pond, Yohei III evoked dewdrops with small dollops of porcelain that rise above the glazed blue ...

When Japanese American artist Jun Kaneko was first approached by Portland Japanese Garden staff to host an exhibition, he didn’t respond to them for weeks on end. “I had it on my table for about two ...

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...

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 — ...

PENINSULA ceramic artist Shigemi Sanders and painter Miyoko Mizuno share their work in the Gallery 9 exhibit “Hanami.” The show, which takes its name from a Japanese tradition of viewing blossoming ...

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 925 posts, we featured an art festival, ...