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Make clay and glaze using the power of the shining sun. Dry and crush clay from Ena and start kneading after adding water with a sieve. This clay should be aged for at least 3 years before using it. Instead of using tbe glaze as is, let it dry in the sun to inject its energy before mixing. Tetsuou Ogawa official site ogawagama.com

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Living in Gifu and Ena Japan. Since ancient times, Japanese pottery has been at one with nature. Winter Akamatsu pine trees should be called food for pottery since the wood contains plenty of tar and can create strong fire when cut between November and December. In the early winter,these red pine trees are cut down into 50 cm lengths to provide firewood in the valley. Spring When the snow melts...

Enchanted by the Land of Ena Originally, Japanese pottery was at one with nature. Potters used to go into mountains to make a firewood kiln, find/refine raw materials, cut trees, prepare firewood and fire firewood kilns. Traditional ceramics are made from clay whereas the glaze is made from feldspar, ferrous rubble, wood ash, and straw ash. The land of Ena is the only place in Japan where all o...

Profile Tetsuou Ogawa I was born in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1968 and studied oil paintings at university. After I graduated, I spent my days drawing oil paintings while traveling around Europe. In 1993, I returned to Japan and was searching for a different path for my work. One day, as I was walking in the woods, I saw smoke coming from a firewood kiln. The fire in the kiln was so ...

About 18500 years ago, we entered an era called ‘jomon’ in Japan which lasted for 16000 years. It was an era that lasted much longer than any other civilization in the world. It is thought that people coexisted with nature and communicated with the gods. In addition, it was a rich era where there was no gap between the rich and the poor and no discrimination as there is in the present age. It w...