The Dictionary · Craft tourism of Japan
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Doors into Japan's living crafts — where the maker stays unknown, and the beauty lives in use.
Tobe Ware砥部焼
In the whetstone town of Tobe, Ehime, porcelain was first fired in 1777 using stone waste. Thick, sturdy white porcelain painted with free cobalt-blue arabesque and…
Craft /en/craft/shikoku/tobe-yaki/
Aizome (Japan Blue)藍染
Japan Blue — awa-ai, natural fermentation indigo from Tokushima. Green from the vat, blue in the air; true fermentation indigo is now about 1% of what…
Japan Blue /en/craft/shikoku/aizome/
Every word is a door to the next.
Onta's clay leads to the river, the river to a hot spring, the spring to the table. The relations are the route.