Pottery Websites

[kitakyushuman]

Hi,

Does anyone know any website that are guides to Japanese pottery that are written in English. I can find plenty in Japanese, but I can't read them.

Thanks

[Uncle Frank]

buying a copy of "JAPANESE ANTIQUES" by Patricia Salmon. It's old, but it has a lot of info. GOOGLE searches using "Japanese" as the first search word work sometimes. Also Seto pottery, Tamba pottery,Echizen pottery,Shigaraki pottery,Bizen pottery, & Tokoname pottery may yield some search results. If you can get a copy of the book, it will give you a lot of Japanese names to search under. You might try "museum collections of Japanese artifacts". Don't limit yourself to just Google either, ALLTHEWEB,ALTAVISTA,ASK JEEVE'S and many others may have something Google doesn't.Good luck!!

Frank

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[teardrop]

Hi Kitakyushuman, try e-YAKIMONO.net (http://www.e-yakimono.net/)
It's a very comprehensive website on Japanese pottery in English, with lots of links to other articles and websites on pottery as well. Hope you'll find it useful. :-)

[thomas]

Does anyone know any website that are guides to Japanese pottery that are written in English. I can find plenty in Japanese, but I can't read them.

I suggest to search our Directory (http://www.jref.com/dir). Here's what you get on "pottery (http://www.jref.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=pottery)"...

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[TwistedMac]

check it out, it's mitoinfo, with the signature to the site mitoinfo, promoting the site mitoinfo!

what are the odds of that?

[jlifeintl]

You can e-mail your pottery questions to Takao my senior in our company: tmatsumoto@jlifeinternational.com . He works with someone that has been doing traditional Japanese pottery since 1978 in CA and then NH. Much of his work is finished in the Oribe style and similar to this: http://www.jlifeinternational.com/ceramic19_e.html . They would be more than happy to point you in the right direction wheras myself, I know almost nothing of pottery.