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'Washi' craftwork exhibition in Shimane Pref.

MATSUE, Japan - A foldable "shoji" screen, used as window blinds, made from "Sekishu washi" traditional handmade paper in Shimane Prefecture is exhibited at the Sekisho Art Museum in Hamada in the western Japanese prefecture in November 2014. Japanese "washi" was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list the same month.

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Famous pottery kilns to be fired after 40-year interval

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Kilns used by the late Shoji Hamada, a Japanese ceramic artist credited with developing Mashiko town in Tochigi Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, into a world-renowned pottery center, will be fired in February 2015 for the first time in about 40 years. This file photo of the kilns was taken on July 27, 2014.

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Noted potter Hamada's climbing kiln gets initial firing

Tomoo Hamada, head of a pottery house in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, fires a climbing kiln on Feb. 7, 2015, to mark the 120th anniversary of the late potter Shoji Hamada's birth. It was the first such firing in some 40 years there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Famous pottery kilns to be fired after 40-year interval

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Kilns used by the late Shoji Hamada, a Japanese ceramic artist credited with developing Mashiko town in Tochigi Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, into a world-renowned pottery center, will be fired in February 2015 for the first time in about 40 years. This file photo of the kilns was taken on July 27, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Mashiko-yaki pottery exhibition

Photo taken Aug. 4, 2020, shows an exhibition of Shoji Hamada, a late Mashiko-yaki pottery artist, being held at Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art through Nov. 8. The exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of Hamada's visit from 1920 to Britain where he built an Eastern-style climbing kiln.