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Mashiko Images 5 images Created 19 May 2009

Mashiko is well known for its distinctive pottery called Mashikoyaki. Mashikoyaki or Mashiko Pottery is often thought of as a simple and rustic in style, brown with red glaze. Mashikoyaki was developed when a local potter discovered that area clay here was ideal for ceramics.
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  • Japanese Ceramics Mashiko - Japanese pottery and porcelain one of the country's oldest art forms, dates back to the Neolithic period. Kilns have produced earthenware, pottery, stoneware, glazed pottery, glazed stoneware, porcelain and enamelware. Japanese history records many distinguished potter's names, some who are considered to be artists.
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  • Japanese Ceramics Mashiko - Japanese pottery is one of the country's most venerated art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. Kilns have produced pottery, earthenware, stoneware, porcelain and enamelware. Japanese history records many distinguished potter's names, some who are considered fine artists.
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  • Rural Rustic Wood Pile - Firewood is still used for specialized burning in rural Japan, mostly for cooking and occasionally heating in wood-burning fireplaces and stoves.
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  • Tanuki is the Japanese word for a raccoon.  These creatures have been represented in Japanese folklore for hundreds of years.  The tanuki have a reputation for being mischievous.  At the same time they are jolly, good at disguising themselves. They are also absent-minded. and gullible according to legend.
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  • Japanese Pottery and Plum
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