A cat made of pottery. ふち猫

I tried to made a cat who put on the edge of a cup.
It is a pottery. That is one of the items which is getting popular in Japan.
It's known Hutineko,as same as Ms,Hutikoふち子さん is a women who put on the edge of a cup.
That is a toy in Japan. I would say a cup is hang with a cat rather than putting it on.

Basically you can not buy it a shop.
Do you know "Gatya pon"ガチャポン？I need to explain about that.

"Gatya pon" is a vending machine to get a toy for little kids in Japan.The small toy is in plastic ball.
The name is the sound when the ball would be moving out of the machine.
There are so many sort of toys in it.Ms,Hutiko and Hutineko are some of these toys what are popular.
Of course these are not made of pottery.

So how use it?
It is no use. It would be just for playing.
You can hang it any cup and enjoy to see it. It's a cute.

今回はちょっと陶器で「ふち猫」を 作ってみました。
日本ではよく知られているガチャポンという機械で手に入れることが出来る「ふち子さん」というおもちゃをご存知ですか？
コップなどの縁にひっかけて遊ぶ、それだけのおもちゃで、それの猫バージョンです。
ちまたで見る物はほとんどがプラスチックで、あまり陶器の物は見かけないなと思い作ってみました。
何に使えるわけでもないのですが、テーブルの上に置いてあるとなんとなく楽しいですね。

Hearing and listening. 話し聞いてる？

Sometimes I miss listening someone's talking. Although I suppose to hear it.
If I would take some notice,I miss hearing.

Which is to say,for example,when I talk to friends,if I notice her nice cloths,I would focus it.
It comes to my mind "Oh,her shirts is really nice."
So I miss listening to talk what she said.
At that time I may look spaced out.....

When I was junior high school student,I often miss hearing teacher's talking. That's too bad me...

If I concentrate to make something too much,I could not pay attention anything but making things.

Sorry friends, if I would not answer you when you talk to me,I may take something notice.

This picture is a sleeping seal who has round body. It is which I made several years ago.
You may not realize what it is.

私は人の話を聞き逃すことがあります。聞いているつもりなのですが、何か他のことに気をとられると聞こえていないようなのです。
つまり、友達と話をしていてその人が素敵な服を着ていたとします。それに気を取られて"素敵なシャツだなあ"などと思っているとその間の話の内容が抜け落ちてしまう
というわけです。そういうときはただぼーっとしているように見えるかもしれません。中学や高校のときも何かに気を取られて先生の話を聞き逃すことはしょっちゅうでした。 これじゃ勉強できないわけです....

作品制作中などはとくに何も他のことに注意を払えなくなります。
皆様、もし私に話しかけても反応が無かったら、なにかに気を取られていると思ってお許し下さいませ。

この作品は数年前に作った、おなかの丸いアザラシが寝ているところです。写真だとなんだかよくわかりませんね。

It is fun to make things.

I am a sculptor.
I also make potteries because I have pottery class.And I make baskets too.
The other hand I work at high school as a part time art teacher.

On every count it is fun to make what I want to make.
I feel like that it is similar with a child who make hard something which is rubbish for adult.
It does not matter wether it would be able to sell or not.
I enjoy that it must be fun to do it.

I'm happy in certain way to do such things till now.:)
That's why I can not sell my works... 私の本職は彫刻ですが、陶芸教室をやっているので陶器なども作るし、カゴバックなども作ります。
いずれにしても自分が　何か作りたい物を作るのは楽しく、その気持ちは小さな子どもが大人から見ると　ろくでもないものを一生懸命つくっているのと似ています。
それが売れるか売れないかなんて関係なく、こうやったら面白いかどうかなんてことだけで遊んでいる...
この年までこんなことをやっていられるのも、ある意味幸せだなあと思います。
だから作品が売れないんですけどね。

Pottery class. 陶芸教室

I was said to some friends "It's hard to read English." So I decided to write English and Japanese both.
These are lots of potteries what students made. Everyone enjoy to make it and looking forward to use it.
And it's a pleasure to think what dishes would you serve on it.
The real thrill of pottery is that you can expect what the color of it unexpected when you apply glaze.
I think that it's an important things not to make sculptures and potteries as you like too much.
数人の方から英語だと読みにくいと言われましたので、英語と日本語の両方で書いてみることにしました。
この沢山の陶器は　うちの陶芸教室の生徒さんの作品です。皆さん楽しんで作っていらっしゃいます。
また出来上がりにどんな料理をのせるか考えるのもたのしみですね。
陶芸の醍醐味は予想していなかった素敵な色に焼き上がること　もあることでしょうか。
彫刻も陶芸も自分の思い通りに作ろうと思いすぎない方がよいのかもしれないと考えたりしています。

The end of the summer.

I relief to end this summer. I could concentrate to make my works it's been a while.
It has been so tired summer heat. It simply wasn't possible to carve a stone.
I'm really not good at the summer. I wish summer season would be short.Or better yet,to get cold summer.
Or even better,I wish the summer would be gone.
Sorry if you like summer.

Basket bag

This is one of my side business, making basket bag.
It made of paper,applying Kakisibu柿渋（persimmon tannin). It's a comfortable for use and tough.
I sell it reasonable price.
I enjoy to make it.

A war will begin tomorrow.

I tried to translate in English Japanese popular poem of Setsuko Miyao.

"A war will begin tomorrow"
You became not to think a person as a person because you got used to be on the jam-packed train every day.

You became not to think mind as mind at board on the internet.

It frequent happened abuse death and suicide you became not to think life as a life.

You finished preparing it.

You don't think a war as a war.

Finally,the war will begin tomorrow.

written by Setsuko Miyao.

Unfortunately I thought it is expressed well Japanese young people's real feeling.
We need to have imagination what is real war.