Mashiko

Mashiko is a town situated in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Mashiko is known for its stoneware, called mashikoyaki. Early stoneware in Mashiko goes back to the Jomon and Yayoi periods. Mashikoyaki is regularly thought of as a basic and natural in style, dark colored with perhaps a little red coating, however present day stoneware made in Mashiko today is found in numerous styles, as a result of the imaginative opportunity conveyed to Mashiko by Shoji Hamada. Present day Mashikoyaki dates just to 1853, when a potter found that nearby earth here was perfect for pottery.

The style was advanced in 1930 when Hamada, later assigned as a Living National Treasure, set up a furnace in Mashiko. Mashiko is a folkware oven site that is not normal for a portion of the other more established furnace destinations around Japan. The town is available to newcomers whether they be potters or others with expert foundations in expressions, science and training.

In Japan specialists were normally naturally introduced to their calling yet in Mashiko, anybody could be a potter. Following Shoji Hamada, individuals hoping to come back to a progressively customary Japanese way of life settled in the territory. Two times per year, corresponding with the Golden Week Holidays in the main seven day stretch of May, and again for the primary seven day stretch of November, there is a stoneware and specialties celebration where potters and skilled workers from Mashiko and encompasses go to the town and set up slows down.