Welcome to Kasama
笠間へようこそ

Introducing 32 potters from Kasama in Ibaraki, Japan.

Kasama has been a home for pottery in Japan for centuries.

Sixty miles from the capital, the town exists at the point where the urban sprawl gives way decisively to mountains and rice fields. Long a supplier of ceramics to Tokyo, it now acts as a well established creative retreat, and a vital location for the new wave of individual ceramicists in Japan.

 

The Ceramics of Shūji Haneishi

Wood firing and salt glaze

 
 

A sense of freedom and individual expression

 
 

Interview with
Ryoko Mutasono

 
 
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Mamoru Teramoto, master potter