The Art Of Japanese Ceramics

While japanese ceramics now stand among the world s most famous and celebrated traditions they took a while to find their voice.

The art of japanese ceramics.

Photographer michael magers captures a japanese ceramic artist who works at the intersection of art and craft. Some four or five centuries ago in japan a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics. Potters from this region are known for their use of five. The art of making japanese ceramics.

Kintsugi is the japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections. For the non collector who nevertheless admires japanese ceramics the main interest will undoubtedly lie in the concise and highly readable background information that mr. Kilns have produced earthenware pottery stoneware glazed pottery glazed stoneware porcelain and blue and white ware. Pottery and porcelain is one of the oldest japanese crafts and art forms dating back to the neolithic period.

Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together. This tradition known as kintsugi meaning golden seams or kintsukuroi golden repair is still going strong. Japanese ceramics have a long history going back as far as 13 000 years ago to the earthenware of the prehistoric jōmon period. Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic production.

Earthenwares were created as early as the jōmon period giving japan one of the oldest ceramic traditions in the world. Some artists grow up in famous japanese ceramic regions some are born into a family of ceramic artists and end up taking on the family business while others just fall in love with ceramic art and. Japan is further distinguished by the unusual esteem that ceramics. You won t realize your full potential until you go.

The name jōmon itself meaning rope patterned refers to the. Often thick and rustic it s known for. Munsterberg presents and in his amiable manner of leading the reader to an appreciation of japan s ceramic art. Kintsugi also known as kintsukuroi is the japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold silver or platinum a method similar to the maki e technique.

Glazed stoneware from mashiko city located in tochigi prefecture. More on that later wouldn t mature until the beginning of the shogunate period ca. The oldest japanese porcelain from arita. The classic iconic japanese pottery style known as wabi sabi.