tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13223575630754814082024-03-13T09:26:46.291-07:00Mashiko Potter In MinnesotaFrom Minnesota to Mashiko and Back.Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-79968901271899467502021-03-07T10:45:00.000-08:002021-03-07T10:45:05.573-08:00First Ride 3:5:21 SD 480p<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Iebds2Hphnw/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Iebds2Hphnw" frameborder="0"></iframe>Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-10669472334039968562021-01-09T08:41:00.001-08:002021-01-09T08:41:35.812-08:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 700;">Ox And The Big Dipper</span></p><div class="ke58f7hz rc3qi4vy s3osu3db tr9rh885 bi6gxh9e" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px; width: 700px;"><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.41px;">I showed this image to Warren. He laughed and he told me a story:</span></div><div class="buofh1pr j83agx80 cbu4d94t gs1a9yip k4urcfbm qv66sw1b" style="align-items: stretch; background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; width: 700px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="_8emu" style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit;"><div class="mxezazgo" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 32px;"><div class="lmeqb73q" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="a7mt4bxe mvznato0" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; justify-content: center;"><img alt="" class="fv5rgwb1 rc3qi4vy img" src="https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/49714011_2162180727444219_8283201956298620928_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=2&_nc_sid=32a93c&_nc_ohc=PKXmcfuVcDMAX9KNvop&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=f4ef2f210d80edc6eb262cec7e5ac792&oe=60201F2D" style="border: 0px; max-height: 480px; max-width: 640px; vertical-align: middle; width: 640px;" /></div></div></div><br /><p style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 24px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He an Alix went out for a Sunday ride on their motorcycle while they were working with Leach at St. Ives. They stopped at a shop and saw the Charger above. It was just taken out and put on a shelf. Made by Hamada while he was at St. Ives. Warren said the foot was jagged because the Galena ran off the pot and stuck to the kiln shelf.</span></p><br /><p style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 24px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They were excited, but didn't have any money with them. They rode the motorcycle back to the pottery and told Bernard about the pot. Bernard remembered it and loaned them the money to buy it. They hurried back and someone else bought it while they were gone. Warren said to me, "I don't know why on earth we didn't ask to have it held for us."</span></p></div></div></div>Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-48820134861448411952017-03-10T08:14:00.001-08:002017-03-10T09:26:31.420-08:00<div class="_39k2" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 40px 0px; position: relative;">
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Warren Mackenzie: Bridging St. Ives and Mashiko (this is a work in progress.)</div>
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Warren Mackenzie’s first exposure to Japan was when he was station there after WWII, during the American occupation. Mackenzie was in a unit responsible for maps and printing. Because the Japanese print shop did most of the actual printing for them, their commander told them to paint images of Japan to keep them busy. Below is a water color of a Shinto Shrine Mackenzie painted. </div>
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His first experience of Mingei was when he purchased a Shiko Munakata woodblock print while stationed in Japan. He had no idea he would later be immersed in Mingei’s creative philosophy as a potter in St. Ives, England.</div>
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When Mackenzie returned to America and registered at the Chicago Art Institute, where he studied before getting drafted into the Army, all the painting classes were filled and the only class that was open was a pottery class. That is where he met his first wife Alix. Their instructor turned out not to know anything about pottery, but they found Bernard Leach’s book, A Potter’s Book and took up self instruction. They quickly realized they needed serious instruction and decided to go to England to ask Bernard Leach to take them as apprentices.</div>
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Warren and the late Alix Mackenzie traveled to St. Ives and apprenticed with him for over 2 years. Not only that, they lived with him in his house and found the discussions about pottery and mingei to be the most rewarding aspect of their stay in St. Ives.</div>
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At the end of their apprenticeship in 1952, before they left for America there was the International Potters and Weavers Conference at Dartington hall. Leach invited Shoji Hamada and Yanagi to attend and that is where the Mackenzies met Hamada and Yanagi. It was Hamada’s first trip back to England since 1935.</div>
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Mackenzie has always said, though he apprenticed with Leach, Shoji Hamada has always been his main creative inspiration.</div>
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Leach decided to go back with Hamada and Yanagi, but instead of going East, back the way they came by ship, they would fly across the atlantic and then travel by ground across the USA.</div>
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Alix Mackenzie approached them and said, “Look, if you’re going to travel through America, why not do a series of workshops while you’re crossing America?” So Hamada thought for a while, said, “All right.” He said, “If you will arrange it, we’ll do it.” It was arranged to stop at St. Paul where the Mackenzies taught. And also Black Mountain College in North Carolina where Marguerite Wildenhain was and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana with Rudi Autio, and Peter Voulkos, and in California at the Chouinard Institute, where Susan Peterson was teaching.</div>
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Alix Mackenzie also arranged a show for Hamada. Shinsaku Hamada sent the pots from Mashiko. It also included 20 pots by Kanjiro Kawaii. Hamada and Kawaii first showed at a major museum in America in St. Paul.</div>
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During Hamada’s visit to St. Ives Pottery, Mackenzie was able to walk behind Leach and Hamada and Hamada surveyed what was currently being made at the pottery. He did this quietly, with Leach beside him. Finally, Leach asked Hamada what he thought. At the time, the pottery was making catalog ware. Stoneware that was made identical to a catalog that was used to market them. Not the Lead glazed slipware that both Yanagi and Hamada like the most of what Leach made. Finally, Hamada said to Leach, “The best thing that could happen to this pottery is if it would burn down.”</div>
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An amusing thing happened after Yanagi, Leach and Hamada visited Black Mountain College. After the workshop there, Marguerite Wildenhain told her students, “I want you to forget everything you just saw.” She was train in Bauhaus in Europe and did not see merit in the Mingei Philosophy the trio shared. Maybe because it went in the opposite direction of her modernist perspective she worked at next to Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. </div>
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While Mackenzie laid the foundation for mingei inspiration in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the tour he and Alix arranged in the ‘50s across the United States also influenced important people like Wildenhain, Voulkos and Peterson.</div>
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Mackenzie is 93 years old and continues to work in his studio, </div>
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making functional pots every day. He is one of the most influential functional potters alive in the United States today. His friendship with the late Tatsuzo Shimaoka facilitated many Midwestern students coming to Mashiko to study at Shimaoka’s pottery. Mackenzie cultivated an appreciation for Mashiko ceramics in the West, through his work, teaching and the work and teaching of his students.</div>
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<span class="photo photo_right" style="clear: right; float: right; max-width: 180px; padding: 2px 0px 5px 10px;"><img alt="Korean Buncheong Dish in Hamada Museum" class="photo_img img" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-0/q82/s180x540/11887990_10153157413172057_3471824537595128368_n.jpg?oh=819002e66b78e742ceca63840f09a399&oe=573348C3" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="Korean Buncheong Dish in Hamada Museum" /><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 9px; line-height: 12px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;">Korean Buncheong Dish in Hamada Museum</span></span>One of the things I had the good fortune to do, was follow Shimaoka and Warren, as Shimaoka gave Warren a tour of the Hamada Museum. (Warren nodded in appreciation when I mentioned this. He did remember the tour.) I heard details about the many objects there that you wouldn't know about, just walking through the museum by yourself. When we got to this Korean Choson Buncheong dish behind the glass (pictured at the right), Shimaoka stopped and said to MacKenzie: "I have a dish just like this. Many years ago, while Hamada was alive, I had him come see the dish. When I unpacked it, Hamada smiled and said to me:'I have a dish just like this, but an expert told me it is a fake.'"After a pause, Hamada told Shimaoka, "But I don't care.... Because I cannot tell the difference." This point struck home with me. For the creative person, collecting isn't a part of acquisitiveness. It is about the maker's education.<br />
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I assisted my Katagiri Roshi during his illness with lymphoma in the year before he died. I was one of a half dozen male students that attended him in his last months. We each took a different day of the week. I think one of his sons took the 7th day. We would help my teacher up to the 3rd floor, where he slept, when he couldn't get about on his own. Helped him get dressed. What ever was required, including carrying him to the car for his doctors appointments.<br />
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About 6 months after his illness was diagnosed, he went into remission. I took this opportunity to ask him to let me to take priest vows. I had studied with him the total of about 6.5 years by then. He told me he would make me a zen priest, but wanted me to talk to my wife about it and think about it for one year. I told him that Jean and I had spoken about it many times and she supported my decision. But my teacher said that marriage was important and that every married student that he allowed to become a priest ended up getting divorced. So he said, "take care of your marriage, and in a year, I will give you the vows. " I agreed to wait a year.<br />
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Six months later, he died. At the funeral, I decided that I didn't want to start over with another teacher and also, I knew Zen Center would change with his departure. He had great hopes for Hokyoji, the monastery in Iowa, and I knew that focus would change when he was gone. And that because my teacher said he'd give me the vows, that was good enough for me, and if I lived my life as though I had taken the vows, that it was as good as taking them from him. The only reason you need the papers, is if you want to marry and bury people. I figured, because my teacher had 12 dharma heir priests, that this aspect would be taken care of by them. I decided I would take the vows later. After my next step was well underway.<br />
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I was fortunate to be able to attend my teacher's body while the traditional 3 days before cremation was observed. Constant meditation periods were held during the 3 days and I took my turn at being one of the "bell ringers" during that time (the lead time keeper of the mediation period.) The person who came out from California, Yvonne Rand, to direct the funeral preparations was able<br />
to find a traditional nailess casket, made by a Hasidic casket maker. Usually in America, what people do, is put the body in a disposable cardboard liner that is then put in a rental casket. For cremation, only the body and the cardboard box is put into the oven. But with a nailess traditional pine box like what the Hassidic craftsmen make, you can just put the whole casket in the crematory oven.<br />
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<span class="photo photo_left" style="clear: left; float: left; max-width: 180px; padding: 2px 10px 5px 0px;"><img alt="Mystical Kabala Tree Of Life." class="photo_img img" src="https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/v/t1.0-0/s180x540/4924_117179922056_654270_n.jpg?oh=40ce5a073bc12467b31c81a898b173ea&oe=571643F9" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="Mystical Kabala Tree Of Life." /><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 9px; line-height: 12px; padding: 2px 0px 0px;">Mystical Kabala Tree Of Life.</span></span>I was really taken by the craftsmanship that this plain pine casket represented. I decided, because of the craftsmanship of this casket, which was very similar to the craftsmanship of Shaker furniture, that I wanted to become a potter and make urns for people's ashes, with the same spirit that this Hasidic casket maker did. That was March of 1990. In the fall, I enrolled in my first evening clay class at the UofMN. I didn't make a very logical choice. I often follow my intuitions even though I might make a decision a year ahead of doing it.<br />
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I am currently studying traditional wood block printing with a teacher here in Mashiko. If you ever visit the Messe museum, you'll see his illustrations in the covered bridge on the way to the museum buildings. He also made prints that are sort of charactures that you see everywhere, of Hamada, Leach and Yanagi. He is also a fine potter, but has not fired his noborigama in many years. He is a living, breathing, "Unknown Craftsman."<br />
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One time, someone asked my teacher, Itoe Sensei, why he didn't fire his noborigama any more. Itoe-san answered: "A family of cats made their home in the chimney of the noborigama. I didn't think I should disturb them."<br />
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"With Humans it's what's here (he points to his heart) that makes the difference.<br />
If you don't have it in the heart, nothing you make will make a difference."<br />
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<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="color: #3d5681; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; word-break: break-all;"> 미국인 도예가 리 러브(Lee Love)씨.(사진제공=문경시청)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif;"> “저는 매일 한국의 통일과 평화를 위해 기도했습니다.”</span><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif;"> 문경전통찻사발축제 국제교류전에 참가한 미국 도예가 리 러브씨(Lee Love․61․미네소타 미니애폴리스)는 지난해 이 축제에 참가했다가 유태근 문경대 도자기공예과 교수에게 통일의 염원을 담은 도자 항아리 조각 작품을 선물받았다.</span><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif;"> 독실한 불교신자인 러브씨는 "집 안 불상 앞에 이 도자기 작품을 놓고 지금까지 매일 한국의 통일과 평화를 기원했다"고 밝혔다.</span><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif;"> 그는 또 "아버지가 한국전쟁에 참가했다가 일본에 머물면서 결혼을 하는 등 한국과 인연이 깊고 한국을 사랑하기 때문"이라고 덧붙였다.</span><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif;"> 지난해 전통찻사발축제에 다녀간 러브씨는 미국의 교포사회 소식지에 문경의 찻사발과 축제에 대한 이야기를 사진을 곁들여 자세히 소개하기도 했다.</span><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: NanumGothic, 나눔고딕, nanumG, Dotum, AppleGothic, 'Droid Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif;"> 25년째 도예의 길을 걷고 있는 그는 문경전통찻사발축제에 5년째 참가하면서 전통발물레도 제법 능숙하게 다루는 등 한국과 문경의 문화에 푹 빠졌다.</span></span><br />
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font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="systran_seg" id="Sp1.s8_o" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">He</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_153" value="6464/conj">also</span> <span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_154">“</span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_155" value="1010/noun:common">father </span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_160" value="0405/verb:plain">participated</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_159" value="500d/prep">in</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">a</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_158" value="1005/noun:common*">Korean War</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_164" value="500d/prep">in</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_163" value="1011/noun:propernoun">Japan</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_165" value="4804/verb:inf*">to stay</span><span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_0">,</span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_170" value="1011/noun:propernoun">Korea</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_171" value="6464/conj">and</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_172" value="1010/noun:common">karma</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">which</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_166" value="0405/verb:plain*">get married</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_174" value="0820/verb:plain">deep </span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_177" value="0405/verb:plain">love</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_175" value="1011/noun:propernoun">Korea</span><span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_0">,</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_179" value="5c5c/conj">because</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_182" value="0404/verb:plain">added</span> <span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_180">"</span><span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_183">.</span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="systran_seg" id="Sp1.s9_o" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_184" value="1010/noun:common*">Last year </span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_185" value="1010/noun:common">tradition</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_186" value="e0e0/unkn">chasabal </span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_191" value="1010/noun:common">love</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">which</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_190" value="0404/verb:plain*">dropped</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="systran_seg" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="systran_token_word" value="0404/verb:plain*"> in</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_189" value="500d/prep">to</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">a</span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_187" value="1010/noun:common">bowl</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_188" value="1010/noun:common">festival</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_199" value="500d/prep">in</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_197" value="1010/noun:common*">overseas Koreans society</span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_198" value="1010/noun:common">newsletter</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">of</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_194" value="1011/noun:propernoun*">United States</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_202" value="e0e0/unkn">chas</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_206" value="500e/prep">about</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_203" value="1010/noun:common">bowl</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_204" value="6464/conj">and</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_205" value="1010/noun:common">festival</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">of</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_200" value="1011/noun:propernoun">Mungyong</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_207" value="1005/noun:common">talk</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_211" value="0404/verb:plain">added</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the </span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_209" value="1010/noun:common">photo</span><span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_0">,</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_213" value="0405/verb:plain">introduced</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="systran_seg" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_212" value="3030/adv">fully</span><span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_215">.</span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="systran_seg" id="Sp1.s10_o" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="systran_token_entity" id="token_216">For 25 years</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_223" value="7078/pron">he</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">who </span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_221" value="0404/verb:plain">walks</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_219" value="1010/noun:common">road</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">of</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_217" value="1010/noun:common*">ceramic art</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_225" value="1011/noun:propernoun">Mungyong </span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_226" value="1010/noun:common">tradition</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_227" value="e0e0/unkn">chas</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_232" value="0405/verb:plain">participates</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span class="systran_seg" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, helvetica, 'lucida sans', 'arial unicode ms', code2000, verdana, sans-serif;"> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_230" value="500d/prep">in</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">a</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_228" value="1010/noun:common">bowl</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_229" value="1010/noun:common">festival</span> <span class="systran_token_entity" id="token_231">for 5 years</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0" value="*">and</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_237" value="500e/prep">also</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_0">the</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_234" value="1010/noun:common">traditional</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_235" value="3c3c/det">departure</span><span class="systran_token_word" id="token_236" value="1010/noun:common*">spinning wheel</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_238" value="1010/noun:common">division</span> <span class="systran_token_word" id="token_239" value="3020/adv">skillfully</span><span class="systran_token_punctuation" id="token_0">,</span> </span></span><br />
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Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-72614372526364928862015-03-08T08:10:00.001-07:002015-03-08T08:10:47.794-07:00Dawan, Chawan, Chassabal: Connecting The Kizaemon Ido With the PotterAnother great article by Arthur Park on the Kizaemon Chasabal. Follow link below.<br /><br /><br />
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Yesterday, I got the news that my "Horsehair Vase" was accepted in "The 6th Mashiko International Ceramics Competition 2006 of Japan". And the piece received a Judges' Special award, selected by the artcritic Rupert Faulkner. The prize winning works will be displayed at the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art from October 8 to December 10, 2006 in Japan.<br />
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Mashiko is an important potter’s village, made known by Hamada Shoji, the legendary pioneer of Japan’s pottery folk art movement. Mashiko represents the essence of the old Japan and a unique reservoir of local clay and hills suitable for the "nobori-gama" kilns. Hamada was convinced that outstanding craftsmanship flows from the natural environment. His vision was about fusing nature's grace and beauty with pottery's functional forms. He has a career-long devotion to the use of the delicate clay indigenous to Mashiko and was honored to be a "National Living Treasure".<br />
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My first ANAGAMA firing in Lee Love's kiln.<br />
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First, we clean the shelves from the former firing, so the shelves will be even and nice.<br />
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Lee paints the shelves with kiln wash, so, when accidents happen, and pots stick, it will be easier to take of the shelf.<br />
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Lee smiles relaxed and has everything under control!<br />
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Jim and Hank fill the anagama. The two stoke holes are in the front. The fire goes through the flues and the flames shoot up in the back where the fire is the hottest.<br />
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You have to stoke when no flames are shooting out anymore from the peephole.<br />
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Stoking the anagama.<br />
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The stoke holes. By looking in the holes you can tell that the fire is already quite hot.<br />
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Unfortunately, we had to leave the next day. The kiln had to cool for several days.<br />
I'll show you my results in one of my next blogs.<br />
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Hank and Jim traveled with me and Adriaan back to Kamakura, where they stayed for 2 nights.<br />
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We still has some other interesting visits.<br />
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We had a fabulous meeting with Yoshihiro Takishita at his home high up on Genji-yama (mountain) of Kamakura. He is an architect and antique collector/dealer. He moved and restored a gashi-type of farmhouse (snow country) and we got a tour from ground to attic and he showed us his screen collection dating from the Muromachi period. (The era when members of the Ashikaga family occupied the position of shogun is known as the Muromachi period, named after the district in Kyoto where their headquarters was located; 1392-1573).<br />
He is the architect responsible for the restoration of the Yanagi home across the street from the Mingei-kan in Tokyo.<br />
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Next day, we went to see Robert Yellin, who lives in Mishima.<br />
Robert Yellin has lived in Japan since 1984. His passion and deep interest in Japanese pottery has led him from collector to columnist and web host/dealer. He is an very knowledgeable and interesting collector and he very generously spent the afternoon showing us and talking about every pot in his office and gallery.<br />
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In 2 days, I will go back to the US for 3 1/2 weeks and see my youngest and oldest boys, do a lot of administration and financing and try to throw and fire lots of pots for future shows and "omiyage" (gift giving) in Japan.<br />
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Lee Love is the organizer of this Mashiko gathering workshop in visiting a lot of prominent Mashiko potters.<br />
He did a wonderful job and I think we were all able to see some divinity in the masters of Mashiko and nature around us and to find some of it in ourselves.<br />
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This is Lee's "Ikuru" ("To Live"!) anagama (one chamber wood fire kiln).<br />
The kiln is a modern, high efficient, woodkiln using waste wood for fuel, which is friendly to the environment.<br />
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Lee talks to Jim Laub, while Mike Martino looks at Lee's display.<br />
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Lee shows the rope rolling inlay.<br />
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This is the wood fired result "guinomi".<br />
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Other potters we visited are Baba Yochiko, Euan Craig and Douglas Black.<br />
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Yochiko-san works in her studio by herself.<br />
She was an apprentice "deshi" from another quite well-known potter from Mashiko: Takauchi Shugo.<br />
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Her work is beautiful: white slip with on top an elegant free design.<br />
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Oribe ware is a high-fired ware that originated around 1600. This ceramic style is named after tea master and warrior Furuta Oribe (1545-1615). General features include a dark green copper glaze, white slip, underglaze brush work, and use of clear glaze.<br />
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Now, he lives in Ichikai, in the country. We had a beautiful drive to his house, where he lives with his family and offered us a cafe latte!!!<br />
He has developed a variety of innovations, currently concentrating on creating wood fired porcelaineous stoneware with natural ash glazing. The brightness of his fired finish and above all his concentration on ceramics for food, his stance in pursuit of the beauty of function, is superb.<br />
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Saimyoji Temple, also known Tokka-san Fumin-in, is a temple of the Busan Shingon School. Its main revered figure is the Eleven-Faced Kanon Bosatsu who achieved perfect freedom from egoism to arouse great compassion.<br />
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In 1127, all the buildings were destroyed by fire, rebuilt in 1178, and destroyed again in 1351. The main hall was rebuilt in 1394 and restored in 1701.<br />
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We also visited Kamiya Shouichi.<br />
He lives also in Mashiko and is a 5 minute<br />
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He is a former apprentice "deshi" of Shimaoka and worked with David McDonald.<br />
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Here clay is dug out and is drying.<br />
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He fires his wood fire combination anagama-noborigama once a year. His forms are very playful.<br />
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Matsuzaki is challenging his craft with new forms and styles and won't become complacent about his work whatsoever. That always makes his work refreshing. He doesn't rehash his succesful styles over and over again. You can say for him that for any true artist the discovery of what lies within is as important as what is created. So, he has been busy creating, changing, daring, and stumbling and ultimately standing proud next to his wide range of works.<br />
His homepage shows dozens of pieces: <a href="http://www.yuushin-gama.com/" style="color: #bf277e; font-weight: bold;">www.yuushin-gama.com</a> and dare to brows. It is only Japanese.<br />
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We had a wonderful time visiting with him and his wife. We saw his special anagama kiln, which he can stoke from two sides.<br />
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Two years ago, he built a new noborigama for his gold and purple "Shino", special whitish glaze. He showed us his workshop<br />
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They also talk some English. Hank knew him from the Pucker Gallery in Boston, where he had an exposition. He has some beautiful wood fired pieces and gold shino bowls. He also gave us a catalogue and on our way out even a small "Guinomo" (cup). Beautiful!<br />
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When Shimaoka was a teenager , wondering what to do when he grew up, he visited the Nihon Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo) in 1938. There he discovered the beauty of Mingei advocated by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). Shimaoka had found what he wanted to become and met the most passionate advocates of Yanagi's Mingei Movement: Hamada Shoji, Kawai Kanjiro and Bernard Leach.<br />
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Shimaoka developed his own personal style. He was designated a "Living National Treasure" by the Japanese government in 1996 for developeng a pottery technique where white slip is applied to rope impressions made in the surface of the pot when it is still wet: something he calls "Jomon Zogan".<br />
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We also went in his showroom. You always take your shoes off and walk carefully around. He was preparing for a show. His work is beautiful, but of course quite expensive.<br />
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In the next couple of days, we visited Hamada Shinsaku, Shimaoka Tatsuzo and Ken Matsuzaki.<br />
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Hamada Shinsaku is Hamada's Shoji's second son. He is born in 1929 in Tokyo.<br />
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He studied Art and Craft at Waseda University before becoming an apprentice with his father at his pottery at Mashiko. In 1963 he came to the Leach potery with Shoji before traveling for a year visiting the USA as an assistant to him for his lecture on ceramic arts. At the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Store art Gallery in Tokyo in 1970 he held his first one-man exhibition. Since then he travelled extensively and held many exhibitions and Tougei(ceramic art) demonstrations.<br />
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He lives next to the Reference Museum of which he is director. He showed us around his compound and saw his workshops and beautiful noborigama(climbing kiln), which he fires in spring and autumn. Summer and winter are either too hot or too cold.<br />
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His son, Hamada Tomoo, is well known too.<br />
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David, Lee, Hank, Craig, Jean (Lee's wife), Jim, Swanica, Mike and Gerd Knapper.<br />
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We were greeted by him, his wife and oldest daughter. He is a very interesting, generous, hospitable and friendly man and offered us refreshments. He took us to the "Fukuroda no taki" (waterfalls) and gave us a delicious lunch with view of the falls.<br />
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On our return, he showed us his noborigama (climbing kiln), other kilns and workshops. In the fall, he will open a gallery in one of his barns.<br />
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Gerd Knapper's prides include his family, house ceramics, sculptures and commissions. His ceramics are scattered in museums and houses all over the world.<br />
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He has been living in Mashiko for 6 years as the first foreigner potter before establishing himself in Daigo for 31 years by building his own kiln. He has been strongly influenced by the country and in turn strongly influences pottery in Japan. He has succeeded in combining the Japanese style with the technical expertise brought to Japan from his native Germany.<br />
Knapper has done what no western ceramist had accomplished before him. He not only won both the prestigious "Minister of Education Award" and the no less prestigious "Prime Minister's Award", but he followed his distinctly individual vision and still was enormously successful with the Japanese public. <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4676/2404/1600/Vase%20with%20glaze%20decoration_1.1.jpg" style="color: #bf277e; font-weight: bold;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4676/2404/320/Vase%20with%20glaze%20decoration_1.1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br />
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I was the last foreign Deshi of my teacher, Tatsuzo Shimaoka.</div>
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Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-70819940915719751702015-02-03T21:05:00.003-08:002015-02-03T21:19:10.219-08:00Photos Of Tatsuzo Shimaoka with his Deshis, his teacher Shoji Hamada and as a Young Man.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During his apprenticeship, Shimaoka used to stand behind his teacher while he was throwing and imitate his movements on the wheel, while standing behind him. Mrs. Hamada once told Shimaoka that her husband Shoji would talk to Yanagi in his sleep. Shimaoka admired that friendship and said he wished he had a friend like Yanagi was to Hamada.<br />
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<br />Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-32892970633372845242015-02-03T13:01:00.001-08:002015-02-03T13:01:32.599-08:00The philosopher has beauty, but the craftsman only has his character.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-75669084229119541622015-02-03T10:29:00.001-08:002015-02-03T10:30:30.642-08:00I once read that my Grand Sensei Shoji Hamada said, "The philosopher has Beauty, but the craftsman only has his character."<div style="text-align: center;">
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Since I started studying in Mungyeong South Korea,<br />I have been broadening my approach to tea.</h2>
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We own an artist's proof of our friend Mayumi Oda's Treasure Ship Snow Goddess we bought at a Mnnesota Zen Center Spaghetti Dinner & Auction.</div>
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It is the first thing I see every morning when I get up.</div>
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One afternoon the last week in April</div>
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Showing Kai how to throw a hatchet</div>
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One-half turn and it sticks in a stump.</div>
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He recalls the hatchet-head</div>
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Without a handle, in the shop</div>
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And go gets it, and wants it for his own.</div>
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A broken-off axe handle behind the door</div>
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Is long enough for a hatchet,</div>
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We cut it to length and take it</div>
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With the hatchet head</div>
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And working hatchet, to the wood block.</div>
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There I begin to shape the old handle</div>
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With the hatchet, and the phrase</div>
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First learned from Ezra Pound</div>
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Rings in my ears!</div>
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"When making an axe handle</div>
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the pattern is not far off."</div>
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And I say this to Kai</div>
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"Look: We'll shape the handle</div>
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By checking the handle</div>
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Of the axe we cut with—"</div>
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And he sees. And I hear it again:</div>
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It's in Lu Ji's Wên Fu, fourth century</div>
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A.D. "Essay on Literature"-—in the</div>
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Preface: "In making the handle</div>
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Of an axe</div>
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By cutting wood with an axe</div>
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The model is indeed near at hand."</div>
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My teacher Shih-hsiang Chen</div>
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Translated that and taught it years ago</div>
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And I see: Pound was an axe,</div>
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Chen was an axe, I am an axe</div>
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And my son a handle, soon</div>
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To be shaping again, model</div>
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And tool, craft of culture,</div>
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How we go on.</div>
<br />Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-49805347712846814662015-02-02T19:33:00.003-08:002015-02-02T19:34:53.365-08:00The Firing.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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for Les Blakebrough and the memory of John Chappell </div>
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Winter nineteen sixty-three A.D. </div>
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Over a low pine-covered splay of hills in Shiga </div>
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West-south-west of the outlet of Lake Biwa </div>
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Domura village set on sandy fans of the sweep </div>
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Draining the rotten-granite hills up Shigaraki </div>
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On a nineteen-fifty-seven Honda cycle model C </div>
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Rode with some Yamanashi wine "St. Neige" </div>
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Into the farmyard and the bellowing kiln. </div>
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Les & John </div>
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In ragged shirts and pants, dried slip </div>
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Stuck to with pineneedle, pitch, </div>
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dust, hair, woodchips; </div>
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Sending the final slivers of yellowy pine </div>
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Through peephole white blast glow </div>
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No saggars tilting yet and segers bending </div>
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neatly in a row-- </div>
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Even their beards caked up with mud & soot </div>
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Firing for fourteen hours. How does she go. </div>
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Porcelain & stoneware: cheese dish. twenty cups. </div>
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Tokuri. vases. black chawan </div>
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Crosslegged rest on the dirt eye cockt to smoke-- </div>
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The hands you layed on clay </div>
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Kickwheeld, curling, </div>
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creamed to the lip of nothing, </div>
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And coaxt to a white dancing heat that day </div>
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Will linger centuries in these towns and loams </div>
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And speak to men or beasts </div>
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When Japanese and English </div>
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Togeikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03718418401458480928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1322357563075481408.post-22495769873433297482015-02-01T20:54:00.000-08:002015-02-01T20:54:00.116-08:00Shimaoka Shogotoba (Work Shop) Before and After 2000<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">I was the main bisque sponger during my apprenticeship. It is a much more accurate application than spraying or dipping, and in the case of dusty bisque from sitting around or if you do inlay (which creates dust), it is more efficient in getting the dust off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Especially in the noborigama bisque, firing temps vary to a large degree. The highest temp was only dull red. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Bisque temp is a factor in absorbancy, but so is bisque thickness. By sponging, you can cause more water do go into soft bisque or thick pots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">We always started glazing the smallest, thinnest pots first. They require glaze with less water in it. As we moved to larger, thicker work, water was added to the glazes. We adjusted up to a dozen times. We always scratch tested the glaze to have an accurate idea about how thick the glaze application was. Its thickness was important over inlay, so that the inlay would not be obscured or undercovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Not only that, from 25% to 5% kaolin was added to the ash glaze, depending upon which kiln it went in and what place in the kiln, the hottest spots requiring the most kaolin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Warren MacKenzie watched us glaze one time and was amazed by the process, because all these adjustments occur in silence.</span></div>
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