KAGUYA Large Vase (Naru)
Watch Naru on YouTube video by JETRO
Matte iridescent on the outside
comes with a signed box
Approximately D6″x H12.25″
Made in Taketa, Oita by Naru
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Naru (INOUE Naruhito)
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Autumn Equinox Approximately September 23rd – October 7th
Waters Dry Up When the sweet smell of orange tea olive flowers waft through the air, it is truly autumn. After the rice is harvested, the paddy fields that were drained in advance slowly dry up into mud cracks. Darkness descends earlier in the evenings and with that, my visits to the fields become few…
Heat Ceases
Approximately August 23rd – September 7th
Heaven and Earth Become Solemn At the corner of the west entrance to our danchi apartment complex, there was a mini-police station called koban in Japanese. The koban was next to the terminal where the local bus shuttled residents to and from the nearest train station. There were three to four policemen assigned at this…
Revitalizing Taketa with Craftsmanship: Glassblower Naru
Glasswork by Naru in our shop -> GLASS SHOW with Naru <Inoue Naruhito> September 3 & 4, 2022 11 am – 5 pm At The Den on Laurel Street 205 Laurel Street, #104 San Diego CA 92101 For more than two decades, Japanese glassblower Inoue Naruhito, known as Naru, has been fascinated by glass, the raw…
Beginning of Autumn Approximately August 8th – 22nd
Cold Cicadas Cry Before I started attending an international school in Singapore, I didn’t know summer holidays in Western schools were much longer than their Japanese counterparts. I clearly remember the panicked expression on my mother’s face when she discovered that I would have two months of vacation from my new school. She said…
Great Heat Approximately July 23rd- August 7th
Moist Earth and Humid Air You might be surprised to know that the hot and humid days of summer in Japan are not only the season for dreaded mosquitos, but also of monsters and ghosts. When I was growing up, I was told that the reason we tell “kaidan” (which means strange stories) in the…
POP UP GLASS SHOW at the Den on Laurel Street Sept 3rd & 4th
We have exciting news San Diego and the World! Mark your calendar for the Labor Day weekend when Entoten will welcome Japanese glassblower Inoue Naruhito from Taketa in Oita prefecture, Kyushu. GLASS SHOW with Inoue Naruhito September 3 & 4, 2022 11 am – 5 pm At The Den on Laurel Street 205 Laurel Street, #104…
Lesser Heat
Approximately July 7th – July 22nd
Falcons learn to fly Before our family moved to Singapore in the spring of 1980, we lived in a cluster of apartment buildings called danchi, in suburban Chiba. The complex, which was completed in 1972, housed approximately 2000 families, and although this sounds like one of those terrible soulless mass housing projects of the 20th…