Crafts

With three-quarters the size of mountains, Japan was and is a land of deep forests and rich wood resources, both soft and hard wood. Excavations in 1996, the Sannai Maruyama-site revealed a structure of the massive use of tree trunks as pillars, and changed the whole image of architecture and society Neolithic (Jomon culture ) Japan. It is now clear that architecture sophisticated (and not only few cases) is under construction at least as early as 4500 bc, using the wood of the earth.

Although Japan has a pot of the world's longest history, food everyday vessels and containers used by the common people were mostly plain and sometimes lacquered wood into the 17th century. Wood almost any form was almost synonymous with life itself. It is not surprising there are so many techniques of woodworking and crafts and disciplines in Japan.

The aesthetics to enable all materials and techniques of pottery to speak comes in large part on the aesthetics of the tea ceremony and is much too complex to discuss here. Just know that the Japanese ceramics displays a kind of intimacy and affection that quality does not interfere with artistic expression or force. Japanese Stoneware is easy to identify. In the case of a Japanese meal, not only enjoy food, but the ships are. Each vessel is noticed and, if it deserves, is admired. A boat serves as a "picture frame" for food and is also there to be judged by its own means. Thus, Japanese products that a meal is served to provide food to all aspects of the human psyche - the body, emotions and spirit, especially if the meal has an eye for beauty and even more if it / She has knowledge about the type of ceramics, its history, or the contemporary period potter who makes the pot, glaze, and all the other techniques of the craft.