Four years have passed since Chiharu Hayasuke began making pottery. Two years, since she arrived in Ishikawa Prefecture, the birthplace of Kutaniware porcelain. Hayasuke is one of the most prominent young Kutani artists currently. The mysterious and exotic approach she brings to her meticulously detailed pieces is a new one for Kutani. “I would like to live my own way from here on,” she says when asked about her self and her works, having jumped from a world completely separate from that of traditional Japanese craft.

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