Japan’s rich history spans millennia, from its earliest prehistoric civilization, the Jomon, known for their intricate pottery, to the rapid modernization of the Meiji era. For over 10,000 years, ...

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 ...

In the quiet soil of Saitama prefecture, two clay statues waited for 1,500 years silent, wide-eyed, and bent in stance as if ...

Can you guess where a piece of art pottery was made (just by looking at its distinctive colors and shape)? And when it was made? Some pottery looks quintessentially American; other pieces evoke ...

A quiet Japanese town with a population of less than 20,000, Arita has been responsible for one of Japan’s most prestigious exports since the 17th century. Arita’s obsession with porcelain ware, ...

Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the ...

SOMERVILLE – Raku, a 12th-century pottery-firing technique, may trace its origins to creating the wares for Japanese tea ceremonies, but you certainly don’t need to hop on a plane to try it yourself.

John Schneider remembers liking the purple vase in his grandmother’s house. Eventually it became his, but he knew little about it before bringing the piece to a recent appraisal session at ...

Robert Yellin is one of the world’s preeminent experts of Japanese pottery. After decades in Japan, first in Numazu and now in Kyoto, Yellin turned his obsessive passion for ceramics into a ...