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They’re redefining traditional crafts with new practices and techniques. Now, follow along as we meet some of the most inspiring makers of Kyoto, Japan.
Hosai Matsbayashi is the head potter at the 400-year-old Asahiyaki pottery in Uji – Japan’s tea culture capital. He’s the sixteenth generation of his family to go into the business of making beautiful tea ceremony wares and crafted pottery. He has exhibited work in London, Paris, New York, Taiwan and Shanghai.
Hosai combines traditional Japanese craft techniques with modern aesthetics to create inspiring new designs. His work follows an aesthetic called kirei sabi, which means fine rusticity. “Traditional crafts use the technology of the time to transform things with them”. He wants to see how technologies will change his craft next. “To take things we can’t do and turn them into things we can”.
“For me, Japanese beauty comes from its ambiguity”.
Hosai Matsbayashi - Kyoto
Hand-stitched leather seats; a front grill influenced by Japanese origami; a powerful all-new 9-speed auto V6 engine. These are just some examples of the craftsmanship and bold thinking that’s gone into the INFINITI QX60, our most versatile three-row SUV ever.
Hand-stitched leather seats; a front grill influenced by Japanese origami; a powerful all-new 9-speed auto V6 engine. These are just some examples of the craftsmanship and bold thinking that’s gone into the INFINITI QX60, our most versatile three-row SUV ever.
Hand-stitched leather seats; a front grill influenced by Japanese origami; a powerful all-new 9-speed auto V6 engine. These are just some examples of the craftsmanship and bold thinking that’s gone into the INFINITI QX60, our most versatile three-row SUV ever.
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