"In Japanese crafts, pottery for example, there is an emphasis on the nobility of the process, with the repetitive nature of making a pot again and again leading to perfection. Hirayama is, admittedly, no craftsman, he cleans and maintains restrooms in Tokyo – which are works of art in themselves – but he nevertheless approaches the task with the same eye for detail, pride and dedication with which a master potter approaches ceramics. You know, the potter’s secret is doing it

A teapot is about the most difficult article a potter is called upon to make. In comparison with a vase of equial size, it requires in additiona, a lid, a handle, a sprout and perforations to retain tea leaves A Potter's Book, Bernard Leach, 1940 I took a porcelain teapot workshop last month and several weeks later, I'm still thinking about the teapot. As an aspiring ceramacist who does not throw well, the teapot was not an object deemed within my capabilities to throw. The t