OPB

Portland Japanese Garden exhibit showcases art of kintsugi, where broken ceramics are reborn, imperfections and all

“Blue Moon,” shown here in a provided photo, is one of Naoko Fukumaru’s kintsugi artworks, based on a Persian earthenware plate from the 10th-12th century CE. Kintsugi is the 500-year-old Japanese art ...
OPB

Portland Japanese Garden exhibit celebrates resilience through art of ceramic repair

Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold dust. The idea is to highlight the imperfections of a piece and celebrate its new form, rather than hide its chips ...
insider.si.edu

Ceramics and modernity in Japan edited by Meghen Jones and Louise Allison Cort

A potter's paradise: the realm of ceramics in modern Japan / Meghen Jones -- Tradition, modernity, and national identity: celadon production at the Makuzu ceramic workshop, 1870-1916 / Clare Pollard - ...
insider.si.edu

Japanese Art from the Collection

This exhibition highlights both iconic and lesser-known aspects of Japanese culture through paintings and ceramics from the Freer Gallery of Art Collection. Learn about Japanese art with a focus on ...
Cleveland.com

Cleveland Museum of Art explores Japanese ceramics dynasty and major gift by NEO collectors in ‘Colors of Kyoto’

On the inside of the bowl, where the viewer looks down at the lotus leaves and blossoms from above the pond, Yohei III evoked dewdrops with small dollops of porcelain that rise above the glazed blue ...
Hyperallergic

Kamoda Shōji, One of Japan’s Most Celebrated Ceramic Artists

Photo of Kamoda at home in Mashiko from 1974 with pots featuring his trademark red-green-white swirls set out before him, on p195 of Aoki Hiroshi, ed., Kamoda Shōji (Inshōsha, 2004). MINNEAPOLIS — ...
Miami New Times

At Lowe Museum, a Century of Japanese Ceramic Art

Out of all of Japanese pottery master Kondo Takahiro’s works, the ones that came after the largest earthquake in his country’s history feel particularly resonant. As the disaster became known, 3/11 ...
The Harvard Crimson

Fifteen Questions: Soyoung Lee on Harvard Art Museums, Korean and Japanese Ceramics, and Her Lost British Accent

Soyoung Lee is the Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator of the Harvard Art Museums. She specializes in Korean and Japanese ceramics from 1400-1700 as well as cross-cultural exchange in East Asia.
The Spokesman-Review

Japanese American ceramic artist Patti Warashina’s ‘Woman With Pear’ to be installed in former Trent Alley, Spokane’s original melting pot

What: Award-winning artist Patti Warashina showcases her ceramic pieces and prepares to donate one of her sculptures to Spokane. When: 5-8 p.m. Friday; mayor Lisa Brown is set to name Nov. 1 “Patti ...
NPR

Japan's Mingei art movement is having a revival as it turns 100 years old

Japan's century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it's having a yet ...
JSTOR Daily

Japanese Ceramics and the Complexities of Consumption in “this Knife-Fork Land”

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 3, Special Issue: Charting the Emerging Field of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology (September 2021), pp. 718-739 (22 pages) Japanese Gulch ...