Tomita Mikiko
Although Japanese women were involved in the Japanese pottery industry for centuries, mainly as decorative artists with their tea wares or performing menial tasks, they were excluded from being in direct contact with the kilns or taking on apprenticeships. Postwar Japan saw more opportunities arise for women in advanced education and they began to enter university art schools and other training facilities both in Japan and overseas. They were exposed to a broader range of creative disciplines and artistic movements and successfully integrated this into their ceramic art and sculptures, while maintaining a connection to the subtle Japanese aesthetic.
From the mid-50′s on they began to establish themselves as independent studio pottery artists. The current generation of female Japanese ceramicists have truly emerged with original and innovative works that seamlessly blend contemporary with traditional styles and techniques and open up new horizons in Japanese art.
“Jolene"
Your beauty is beyond compare
I shudder from your Eldritch stare
With scaly skin and fins of emerald green
Why would you leave this gem in the tags
Haunted House by Niccolo Scardino
That’s not how it looks at all. It’s not like a horror film looming out of the dark to get you. It’s a just truth, a sadness - a warning - a desperate hope that you won’t repeat their fate.
越乃雪本舗大和屋@yamatoya1778 新潟伊勢丹で開催中の岩合光昭さんの写真展「こねこ」コラボバージョン、会期中個数限定にて新潟伊勢丹店で販売中です。お早めにどうぞー。黒猫、白猫がなかよく寄り添ってお待ちしております。
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