Shots of Furuki's workshop from Craig Edwards.
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Groups often come from Tokyo, where Furuki has a potter teaching school.
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Furki's
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More Workshop shots from Craig.
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Workshop
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The New Kiln being built at Furuki's
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Google Satellite Photo of Mashiko.
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I've never seen so many different kinds of flowers. A third are cultivated, a third volunteers and a third are wild weeds. That's the way it looks to me...
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Half of this modern house is living space and half of it is a pottery studio. It is empty and unused. I wish it could be rented to visitors.
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This is a house, pottery studio and kiln building. A young couple used to use it on the weekends. I have not seen anyone around in a couple years.
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Rice is already crotch high.
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These dragonflys live in the woods. They flutter like a moth on their vevlet black wings. They moved slowly, but don't allow you to get very close.
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Moss covered wall in front of Nuka pile.
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Ricehull pile. We make our white glaze out of its ash.
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The square concrete object with a pipe coming out of it is a woodfired bathtub heater.
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Crossbeam on the Torii is almost all rotted away. Maybe the person who put it up isn't around anymore.
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�` little shrine in the spring.
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The little pond the Spring forms.
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The spring flows into a drainage trough.
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Beyond the Spring.
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Kiwii vines.
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Kiwii
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I didn't know that today's bike ride would have a theme: buildings coming down. These workmen were carefully disassembling this traditional style building.
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Beams coming down, I think to be rebuilt elsewhere.
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Workmen taking ceramic shingles off a large farmhouse. Tokyoites are stunned by the large houses farmers live in, in Mashiko.
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Not old, not new.
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Loose shingles
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Sometimes, the buildings just lay where they fall...
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You can buy beer from vending machines here.
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Closeup.
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