Lee Love on sat 23 aug 97
Morris,
Thanks for the private reply. I'm sending this to ClayArt too.
When I visited Shimaoka's pottery, he was in Tokyo taking care of
a show he was having there. I was lucky because someone from Minnesota
was apprenticing there at the time and he gave my wife, my friend Toshi
(a potter in Mashiko) and I a tour. We were in the storehouse and I
was hefting a large rope impressed pot. Our host nonchalantly told me
that it was a $35,000.00 pot! I gasped and put it down as carefully as
I could! :^) Our friend showed us where the shard pile was and said
we could take what we wanted. I didn't want too be greedy, so I only
took a few pieces.
I am in a show in Nikko next spring that Warren MacKenzie is
curating of Minnesota and Wisconsin potters influenced by Mingei. I
hope to visit Shimaoka's pottery again then.
Lee in St. Paul, Minnesota USA
http://www.millcomm.com/~leelove
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