15 years ago today, I was in my studio in Ichikai, the neighbouring town to Mashiko, finishing some work for my next exhibition. I had only fired my kiln once that year, full of a special commission of Yunomi Chawan for an architecture company in Mito. I had not been able to make a new stamp for 2011, the year of the rabbit, in time for that firing, so the Yunomi had "11" pressed beside my stamp with a wedge shaped stylus, in homage to ancient cuneiform.
I had just finished turning and chattering the new work, and was pulling handles when the earthquake hit...
...so much has happened since then.
Today I will be in my studio in Minakami, over the mountains and far, far away from Mashiko, finishing some work for my next exhibition.
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