Pottery.
The use of clay, like this:
To make a variety of stuff, like this:
After about an hour and a half on the potter's wheel learning the delicate art of clay shaping, I managed to shape two bowl like things which should eventually become my rice bowl and a dipping bowl for sauces.
It takes approximately a month from the shaping of the clay to the completion of the product, so that means I should be getting some crockery any time now.
Tokoname, a well known pottery town from as long as the 12th centiry, is one of the historic pottery towns of Japan (and apparently the largest and oldest of all). It is here that my pottery adventure began.
A walk around the town reveals much of the town's links to its pottery ancestry.
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| Some old looking building. Must have some historic significance. |
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| Wall lined with used sake containers |
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And another one. Must be an ancient form of recycling.
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| Decorative pottery in a park. |
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| Kilns used for decoration |
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| as well as baking bread for the nearby bakery |
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| Clay frogs on the roof |
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| And a huge cat head that, again, serves no other purpose than luring tourists to take photos. |
Pity it is rather tedious to get to from Okazaki.
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