{"id":3171,"date":"2017-04-10T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/getting-ready-for-yakimon-matsuri.html"},"modified":"2017-04-10T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:58:53","slug":"getting-ready-for-yakimon-matsuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/getting-ready-for-yakimon-matsuri.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for Yakimon Matsuri"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Golden Week (4\/28 – 5\/6) is the 6th annual pottery festival in Karatsu. It is always fun to show and sell, but getting ready can be a pretty busy time. <\/p>\n

This year I want to show some new designs, items I’ve never made before and\/or sizes I don’t normally make. I’ve made some pedestal platters, coffee droppers, and a style of tokkuri that was popular at a show this last fall.  The general theme will revolve around rim carving and brush decoration of shrimp, and English letters written to look like Japanese kana script. <\/p>\n

Many people tend to think that Japanese dishes are small and numerous, and this is not incorrect, but for home use a popular size is a bit larger, around 7-8 inches (7 sun) or even a bit larger. I find that dishes this size get the most use around our house as well. <\/p>\n

Here’s the damage from this afternoon:<\/p>\n

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Carved rims<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Waiting to be carved<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Various 24cm plates<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Shrimp chopstick rests<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Golden Week (4\/28 – 5\/6) is the 6th annual pottery festival in Karatsu. It is always fun to show and sell, but getting ready can be a pretty busy time.  This year I want to show some new designs, items I’ve never made before and\/or sizes I don’t normally make. I’ve made some pedestal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pottery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_6206-1.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-P9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}