I haven't been active on my blog lately and to compensate for that I am posting an image featuring mostly my recent pots.

I truly abandoned my blog… Too much typing hurts my hands these days. I feel like I can get away with writing anything here because no one r...

Last weekend I attended a demonstration by a Pilipino bonsai artist Juan Llaga at the Tops Weekend organised by the Illawarra Bonsai S...

Yesterday, I attended a bonsai demonstration by Masayuki Fujikawa. He is a second generation owner of Fujikawa Hosei-en nursery in Nas...

Bonsai often draws inspiration from traditional Chinese paintings, and many famous paintings of the Ming and Qing era are inspired by ...

A Japanese friend once told me a modern-day bonsai kōan . Kōan is the Japanese word for a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle used by Zen m...

In Vietnam potted plants are omnipresent and during my brief visit in 2016 I scrutinised every flower pot in my way. The containers were ma...

A couple of medium size pots I made in 2017, which took a long time to fire in an electric kiln. The one on the left is rectangular wi...

2017 was uneventful for me in terms of bonsai or bonsai pot making. I made only ten bonsai pots last year, but those that are wood-fired ar...

The Temple of Literature is basically what is left of the Imperial Academy created to educate Vietnam’s elite in medieval times. This is wh...

Last year, I visited the Temple of the Jade Mountain located on Jade Island near the northern shore of the Lake of the Returned Sword ( Ho ...

I was aware of Namban pottery for a long time, but since my trip to Japan in 2015 this interest became deeper. This fascination arose from ...

Images above show a couple of unglazed electric kiln fired pots I made last year. The one on the left is inspired by rectangular nanba...

This year’s AusBonsai Market held at Auburn Japanese Garden was great. My deep gratitude to the organizers. I was just curious about what’s...

During my short residency at Fujukawa Kuoka-en in Osaka a couple of years ago, I was wandering what to do on my weekly day off. My bons...

Kōrin-in is one of those temples that are closed to visitors most of the time. Fortunately, my visit to Daitoku-ji coincided with the t...