Explorations: Heavenly Machine: Japanese Culture: Pottery in Japan

Duration: 12 mins 58 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Scenes and discussions in the great climbing kiln at Shigaraki near Kyoto. The effects of the pottery tradition on Japanese civilisation are explained and potters are seen at work.
 
Created: 2018-03-10 16:50
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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