Best Attractions and Places to See in Mashiko machi, Japan
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List of Best Things to do in Mashiko-machi, Japan
Mashiko Spring Pottery Festival
Michi-no-Eki Mashiko
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art / Ceramic Art Messe Mashiko
JA Hagano Mashiko Strawberry Picking
Shoji Hamada Memorial Mashiko Sankokan Museum
Sake Brewery of Mashiko Tonoike Sake Brewing
Pottery Warehouse
Saimyoji Temple
Mashiko Pottery Tsukamoto Museum
Mashoko Town Tourist Association Center
Travelogue in Japan, Pottery town Mashiko, volume 17
We are attending class on pottery, part 4
Mashiko
Mashiko is famous for its pottery, known as Mashiko yaki (益子焼). Mashiko is the site of Saimyoji temple, one of the oldest temples in Tochigi prefecture, and the shrine of the Utsunomiya han, located in Kami-Obaa. Large noborigama kilns were first founded there in 1853, by immigrant potters from the neighboring pottery community Kasama in Ibaraki prefecture. Simple and rustic in style, the main glazes are a clear wood ash glaze, a white rice husk ash glaze, black and kaki (persimmon), sometimes decorated with enamel red, yellow and green. These are worlds apart from the courtly ceramics of Kyoto but yet very Japanese. Pottery has been made since Jomon times (over 10,000 years ago) in Mashiko, but modern Mashiko yaki dates only to 1853. The style was popularized by the potter Shoji Hamada. He was designated as NINGEN KOKUHO (Living National Treasure) in 1955. Because of Hamada, Mashiko yaki has been viewed as a good example of Mingei (Folkcraft) pottery.
Mashiko 益子 is a town located in the south east area of Tochigi prefecture, approximately 140km away from the central Tokyo. Producing quality clay, Mashiko has developed as a pottery town known for Mashiko-yaki pottery, where many potters have studios and many kinds of potteries are sold at stores. The number of the pottery studios and the stores reaches nearly 350 in all.
Since 1966, Mashiko Pottery Market is held twice a year, for about 10 days in spring, and 4 or 5 days in autumn. Not only from Mashiko town, pottery artists and venders from all over Japan also join the market to sell various potteries. This popular market is so large that it will take one day to look around all the stalls there. It is recommended to visit early in the morning (It starts at 9:00AM) as it also gets crowded in the afternoon. During the 11-day event in spring 2014, more than 400,000 people visited the market.
While staying with a Japanese family, having dinner together at their house, you will soon notice that the Japanese has her/his own chopsticks and rice bowl (Ochawan), and it is almost like a taboo to use those of others, even people in the family. It seems Japanese people have a strong attachment for their own everyday dinnerware. Whatever else it might be, finding a very favorite ones at pottery markets is an attraction for Japanese people, and it will of course be a fun for anybody.
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Mashiko || Saimyoji Temple and the Laughing Enma: Guardian of the Afterlife
After a year of pining, I finally made the trip to Mashiko! Mashiko is famous for pottery, but my main desire was to visit Saimyoji Temple and collect the goshuin of the laughing Enma who is the guardian/judge of hell.
Mashiko's got a chill vibe and I kind of want to move there now.
Locations in order of appearance:
Saimyoji Temple (西明寺)
Tsuduri Shokudo (つづり食堂)
Kashima Shrine (鹿島神社)
Taihei Shrine (太平神社)
Cafe Novel (Cafe Novel)