bizen – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Diary: quick hits from Bizen Ceramic Fest

October 21, 2024

Pardon brevity: busy times there! (years past much more mellow) but we visited our friends The Hosokawas [kiln firing, studio […]

October 19, 2024

In the middle of a night leading up to our wedding preparations #DRO420, we visited notable Potter (and Ryoko’s friend) Hosokawa Takahiro

November 5, 2022

eating hot oatmeal from Bizen pottery bowl scraping the bottom

September 26, 2022

* to tourism (not everywhere, not everyone blah blah blah) If you are curious, Japan is reopening to independent tourism

August 5, 2022

Along our adventures, we went to the notable pottery town of Bizen to visit master potter Hosokawa-san (you may recall

November 29, 2019

A rather rough overview originally compiled in advance of friends coming to Okayama for wedding. Re-purposed in slightly more general

November 28, 2019

A rather rough overview originally compiled in advance of friends coming to Okayama for wedding. Re-purposed in slightly more general

November 25, 2019

While dispatches and re-caps of various outings and events exist elsewhere in this archive, life is so wonderful right now

October 19, 2019

July 27, 2019

After all the friends came and went from the wedding festivities in April (including a hospital stay by one intrepid