Japanese Ceramics Cultural Project As I mentioned in previous blogs, part of my internship was completing a cultural project - studying some aspect of Japanese culture that interests me - which for me was focused on Japanese ceramics.  I ended up making pottery in a little studio near my first host family's house for the first 5 months of my internship. This was a little difficult because the two old men who owned the studio, though they were really nice, didn't speak any English and I hardly spoke any Japanese at that point, so my way of learning was kind of like "metakatsu", by just watching what they did and repeating it (and relying a little on my previous knowledge of ceramics as well).  Here is a brief overview of the process and some of the things I made: My instructor centering the clay on the potter's wheel Making a bowl on the wheel Dipping the fired pottery in glaze Glazed pottery before the final firing My vases af