Kyoto has always been the home of fancifully decorated ceramics since “The Three Great Masters” of Kyo-yaki (Kyoto pottery) Nonomura Ninsei (active in the Edo period, birth-death dates unknown) Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743), and Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833). Anyone walking up the slope to Kiyomizu Temple surely has seen shops full of such works all still under […]