Illustrated is a screen
capture for a wonderful old Japanese documentary that I found about Arakawa
Toyozo. The fact that this is subtitled is certainly a bonus but seeing footage
of perhaps one of the most famous potters of the 20th Century gives one a great
insight into a way with Shino. This documentary was made circa 1968 by
documentary film maker/ director; Matsukawa Yasuo (1931-2006) and is known by
its Japanese title, IMA WA MUKANSHI SHINO TO OKINA. I don't want to say that
such videos are rare but they are not seen frequently enough outside of Japan
and any insight in to the nature of a master's work is certainly not to be
overlooked. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived
to be understood. All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."Ralph Waldo Emerson
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