pottery – 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

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

October 8, 2021

+ from: Okayama Super Fan / dept of propaganda ≠ I was a guest on JJ Walsh Seeking Sustainability live

March 20, 2021

Containers and related at “salt house” in Kojima, Okayama for: * rainwater (perhaps) * weighing (salt) * koji (trays) *

October 19, 2019

April 30, 2019

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