Potters in the Japanese town of Shigaraki have been producing sturdy earthenware for more than 700 years – reddish pots, bowls and vessels made from the high-quality, iron-rich clay found in the ...

Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

This article originally published at Raised by missionaries in Japan, Kent artist honors tradition of ceramics in 50-year ...

The exhibition “Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan” includes more than 100 porcelain and stoneware vessels that vividly represent an era of highly diverse and accomplished ceramic production in ...

For more than 1,300 years, the Japanese ceramics industry has made a home here in the low hills that provide high-quality clay and ideal sites for kilns. During Japan’s long middle ages, craftsmen ...

Takashi Murakami is on a roll. His next venture is curating an exhibition in New York featuring three local artists. We met up with the ceramicists to chat about their work and upcoming show. Last ...

The history of ceramics in Japan is intrinsically intertwined with cultural exchange. Like green tea, soba and udon noodles, the birthplace of Japanese ceramics is Kyushu, a historical hub of ...

Archaeologists working on a Japanese island discovered an ancient shard of earthenware pottery featuring Kanji, the logographic characters that comprise the Japanese system of writing. It's one of the ...

For the first time since it began receiving the Macdonald porcelain collection in 2004, Toronto’s Gardiner Museum has made ...

In the ceramic world of early 20th-century Kyoto, Chinese ceramics, not Kyo-yaki (Kyoto-style pottery) were the rage of the day, and any potter worth a spin on the wheel strove to emulate them. In ...