On August 11th from 12:00 pm to 5 pm, Entoten Gallery in San Diego will have a grand opening event featuring white ceramics by Hanako Nakazato of Monohanako in Maine. I’m very happy to feature Hanako’s work at the opening of my gallery because when I was refinishing the texture of the gallery’s walls, I…
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Ceramics by Mitch Iburg will be available in our shop from 9:00 a.m. July 25th 2018 -> What sets the work of Minnesota potter Mitch Iburg apart from his contemporaries is a depth and intensity of effort that is profound but not immediately visible. While most potters begin their work by wedging their purchased clay…
The gallery is open on marked dates on the calendar. For other dates and times, please make and appointment by email and I’ll be happy to open the gallery for you. 4907 Morena Blvd. Ste 1402 San Diego, CA 92117 (Inside Rose Canyon Business Park, near Costco)
Check Opening Dates -> July 2018 is a super-exciting month for ENTOTEN because after 6 years of being an online gallery, I just moved into an office suite in San Diego for the first time with a small physical gallery and space to hold workshops. The new office is inside a business park next to…
Ontayaki in Entoten shop -> Read my first blog post about Onta -> On a dreary, rainy May day, I visited the remote pottery village of Onta in Kyushu for the second time as an interpreter for a pottery tour group organized by Bill Geisinger and Ben Horiuchi. It has been 5 years since I…
Tea Whisks by Tanimura Tango in our shop -> I took this photo this morning to show some of the different types of tea whisks that we received from Nara’s master tea whisk maker Tanimura Tango today. It is astonishing to see this photo and then to think that the utensil was originally devised 500…
Work by Shumpei Yamaki in our shop -> Iowa potter Shumpei Yamaki takes a very long time to load his single-chamber anagama kiln. “People used to mock me in school because I was so slow”, he chuckles. “But to me, kiln loading is like completing a beautiful 300-piece, three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle that has infinite picture…
How should I select and arrange flowers in a vessel? For the tea room, Japanese tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591) famously said that “the flowers should be arranged as they are in the field”. As I walked my dog one fall morning last year and saw the misleadingly iconic imported palm trees and eucalyptuses…
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