Japan - Vol. 21 No. 1 - Part I

December 1992

Japan and America: Myth and Reality in Ceramics - guest editors Louise Allison Cort and John Neely: Articles by Peter Grilli, Ellen Conant, Louise Allison Cort, Money Hickman, Patrick J. Maveety, Ronald A. Kuchta, Kenneth Trapp, Sasayama Hiroshi, and Janet Koplos. Seekers - A Contemporary Exchange - more perspectives on Japanese-American relations, along with personal experiences of Americans in Japan and Japanese in America. The Floating Welcome Wagon by John Neely; Catalyst for Change by Morino Hiroaki; Gaijin by Donna Nicholas; Delivering the Promise by Rob Barnard; An Abyss of Freedom by Joy Brown; A Little Tree Branch by Kajatani Ban; Accepting Nature's Imperfections by Jeff Shapiro; more in Part II.

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Japanese Ceramics in America: the Early Years

By Louise Allison Cort

In short, the late nineteenth century was a time when categories of Japanese ceramics were not fixed. Japanese potters were redefining their positions. American and European patrons were groping toward definitions of quality and trying to sort out the differences among ethnographic specimens, pieces aimed at the foreign market, and objets d'art.

Time, Place, and Taste of Clay

By John Stephenson

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