Yoji Yamada's Japanese Pottery Studio _ GOLDMARK

Please come in. I will show you some of my techniques. I made hand coiling first, and after it dried, I put a strip on it. And this is a brown strip. I made from wild clay. A little bit of sand inside. After firing, this gets brown. This is black clay. Black slip. It's a lot of iron and manganese inside. Manganese in slip. Sometimes I move. Usually, when I do this work, I prepare 30 or 50 of this plate. And then I put on a slip. I think this is life. It's changing every time. I try to find a new pattern. I try to get better than before. It's kind of a base. I made it this morning. This is a clay mixing machine. This is very useful. These are my children. Usually, I mix clay. About three kinds of different clay. Sometimes I use clay from the land there. Have you seen? I'll show you. Because of the typhoon, there's a lot of water here. Sometimes I use this clay. I use two electric kilns. This is for biscuit. And some work is this kind of work. I like English slipware. I made this style back from England, about 15 years ago. This is a small one. We call it itekoi gama. Itekoi means go and back. I made this about five years ago. I fired it once a month. I fired it about 60 times. Now I can get almost 19%. I don't know. I can get a good one. I made it myself. I fired it once. Last time was very difficult. I think it's a similar size as an old English slipware. I don't know. It's maybe difficult to use for daily life. A big table. Yeah. Big pieces are different from moving slipware. So... Maybe... I have to make it big. It's OK. Maybe before the exhibition at the Golden Mark, I can get good pieces. I hope.