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This article is based on dozens of interviews with Sokei Aoyama, a master potter located in what was once called the Province of Mino in Japan. Master Aoyama has spent his life trying to reproduce local pottery using ancient techniques. He argues that the famous Mino ware from the Momoyama period, in spite of what appear to have been radically new, organic styles such as Shino and Oribe, were born out of a much longer process. This is a story largely unknown in the West with some unexpected twists.
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Old Japan Hand and VR techno nerd in Japan. Writer, producer, CTO of Mimir - a VR company.