I started Tonari no Murata @tonari_no_murata with my ceramicist friend, Shin Murata @muratashinwolf , as a store just for him. It has now been a year since we launched the store but we have only been able to actually open for total of 10 days during that time. Shin Murata, his wife Fusako @egifusako , and a few other staff members bring the works he creates in Kumogahata, deep in the mountains of Kyoto, down to the store in Okazaki, an area lined with museums, concert halls, etc., and sell them in person. We will open the store again this weekend, only on Saturday and Sunday. The theme is 24 sekki (24 traditional seasons). Each of the four seasons of Japan—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—is further divided into six, resulting in total of 24 solar terms. Murata’s current project is to imagine 24 types of kappo cuisine courses corresponding to these seasons and to make a set of plates and bowls for each of them. Once, when we brought Murata's bowls to a certain kappo restaurant to be photographed for a magazine interview, the owner of the restaurant looked at the vessels suspiciously and asked, "What kind of food are you asking me to serve in these?" Although the chef's arrangement ended up being extraordinary and the vessels were published beautifully in the magazine, Murata felt as though his head had been shattered with a hammer. As a result, he changed his approach and started coming up with concepts with the theme of creating sets of vessels that would suit kappo cuisine. I have been receiving daily reports on his progress, and I let him know my thoughts and discuss artistic theories—which, most of the time, means that I get furious. In any case we have been having passionate exchanges. This will be the first of the results. I hope you will come take a look. photo: @egifusako translation: @tabi_the_fat

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