An important ingredient to the pleasure of most all Japanese food & drink is the use of pottery and the peoples playful approach towards enjoying it's presentation.

I just finished selling my work at a festival of over 500 potters and clay artists, in Mashiko, where more than 50,000 people came to buy something they admire for the enjoyment in their daily lives.

Japan is much known for it's technical, robotical assembly lines and plastic packaging but within all of this most all common people still cherish the use of something handmade and I believe that this is so important, within the mass produced, machine made environments, to contain feelings from the heart within something handmade as a message to our inner well being.