The Art Of Japanese Ceramics

Kilns have produced earthenware pottery stoneware glazed pottery glazed stoneware porcelain and blue and white ware.

The art of japanese ceramics.

Potters from this region are known for their use of five. Kintsugi is the japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold a metaphor for embracing your flaws and imperfections. Thus all the millennia leading up to this development may be grouped as a vast early period. 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.

Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic production. The name jōmon itself meaning rope patterned refers to the. 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. Pottery and porcelain is one of the oldest japanese crafts and art forms dating back to the neolithic period.

Often thick and rustic it s known for. Earthenwares were created as early as the jōmon period giving japan one of the oldest ceramic traditions in the world. More on that later wouldn t mature until the beginning of the shogunate period ca. While japanese ceramics now stand among the world s most famous and celebrated traditions they took a while to find their voice.

Japanese ceramics have a long history going back as far as 13 000 years ago to the earthenware of the prehistoric jōmon period. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something to disguise. This tradition known as kintsugi meaning golden seams or kintsukuroi golden repair is still going strong. Munsterberg presents and in his amiable manner of leading the reader to an appreciation of japan s ceramic art.

Japan is further distinguished by the unusual esteem that ceramics. Artisans began using lacquer and gold pigment to put shattered vessels back together. 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. This is fine porcelain from ishikawa prefecture.

Glazed stoneware from mashiko city located in tochigi prefecture. Some four or five centuries ago in japan a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics. The classic iconic japanese pottery style known as wabi sabi. Photographer michael magers captures a japanese ceramic artist who works at the intersection of art and craft.