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more information on the minigama and haibachi kilns

updated tue 14 feb 06

 

Lee Love on wed 8 feb 06


Folks are asking in private email, so I thought it be good to post it here:

The Books:

Minigama contact information: Naoko Gomi P.O. Box 311 Princeton, MA
01541 naokojee(at)yahoo.com $14.00 ($12.00 for the
book and $2.00 for shipping/handling) Here is the Japanese version, you
can order it at Amazon.jp http://tinyurl.com/5u8ew -- Posted by Clay
Craft to Clay Craft at 12/10/2005 04:44:58 PM

> http://tinyurl.com/6hsbb
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> http://tinyurl.com/5blfl
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> http://tinyurl.com/4ezgl
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> http://tinyurl.com/6wtrb
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> http://tinyurl.com/4c997
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> Bizen looking work: http://tinyurl.com/4ggen
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> Racoon Dog kiln: http://www2.odn.ne.jp/welstone/minigama-1.htm




From: "Karen Sullivan"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:46 PM
Subject: FW: translated minigama book


> I spent the morning firing a minigama kiln...
> It took about 30 lbs. of charcoal and about 3 hours.
> 'Tis a thing of beauty to behold...
> and some of the work in a previous firing
> came out looking like good
> woodfired work...
> the kiln is about 2 feet long...
> such a kick to work with....
> In my advancing age, the thought of firing a
> major wood kiln is becoming a daunting task...
> So I copied the previous post with the author/translator
> of the book...or look into the archieve for information
> about the kiln....
> Give it a try..such a great deal....
> bamboo karen

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Wood Jeanne on thu 9 feb 06


These are great.
Has anyone on this list actually made & used one of
these?
Plus, I thought the translation on the following page

--- Lee Love wrote: snip:
> > Bizen looking work: http://tinyurl.com/4ggen

came out sounding like a haiku (well, sort of)

Jeanne W.




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Lee Love on sun 12 feb 06


On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:19:33 -0800, Wood Jeanne wrote:

>These are great.
>Has anyone on this list actually made & used one of
>these?

Yes there is, do a search at the archives for minigama.

>http://tinyurl.com/4ggen
>came out sounding like a haiku (well, sort of)

Babble Fish and Google Translate certainly do amusing translations.
Primarily, they are only useful for helping navigate on the webpages, rather
than as an actually meaningful translation of the text.

--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs
http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft

"The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything.
The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it
and who don't."

--Burley Coulter (Wendell Berry)