Inside the Kura

Who taught them

In the last piece I wrote about the cup itself — the foot cut so the fingers find it, the rim thinned where the lip goes. This time I want...

Who taught them

In the last piece I wrote about the cup itself — the foot cut so the fingers find it, the rim thinned where the lip goes. This time I want...

The cup you hold the whole time

Most of what passes through here is looked at. A vase stands on a shelf. A scroll hangs and is read. You put them somewhere and then you look.A guinomi...

The cup you hold the whole time

Most of what passes through here is looked at. A vase stands on a shelf. A scroll hangs and is read. You put them somewhere and then you look.A guinomi...

The night I did not dance

This month I went to the Bon dance in my own neighbourhood, and I took a camera, because I thought I knew what I would find: a wooden tower in...

The night I did not dance

This month I went to the Bon dance in my own neighbourhood, and I took a camera, because I thought I knew what I would find: a wooden tower in...

An empty sheet of handmade washi paper in soft daylight

What I look for

Three tests an object has to pass before it reaches the storehouse: how it was finished where nobody was meant to look, how it has aged, and whether it kept...

What I look for

Three tests an object has to pass before it reaches the storehouse: how it was finished where nobody was meant to look, how it has aged, and whether it kept...