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Carrying Japanese ceramics home in your luggage
Cabin bag or checked bag, how large a cabin bag may be, how to wrap a bowl so that nothing moves, and what Japan's tax-free refund asks of a traveler at the airport. -
Japan's pottery towns: a guide to the main kiln regions
Japan's kiln regions in three groups: the Six Ancient Kilns, the porcelain towns that followed Arita, and later pottery towns such as Mashiko. What marks each ware. -
Mashiko: the pottery town in Tochigi
Mashiko is a town of about 20,000 people in Tochigi Prefecture where pottery has been made since about 1853: its kilns, its fair, Hamada Shōji's house, indigo vats and a gate of 1492. -
Washi: Japan's handmade paper and how it is made
Washi is Japan's handmade paper, made from the bark fibers of kōzo, mitsumata and gampi. How a sheet is formed on a bamboo screen, what it has been used for and where it is made.