Mr.Masaji Okubo, after a bisque firing 1992. Making Pottery Digging out the clay from the earth, having water and lying.  Then kneading.  A man’s mind creates the form.  The air consolidates the shape.  The ores in the mountains decorate over. Then firing.  The forces of fire complete the work. A man’s expectation is simple to dwell the life into the clay. Mr.Masaji Okubo used to be an architect for the early skyscrapers in Tokyo. But now, he is devoted entirely to making potteries. During his early days, he spent much of his spare time on taking photos of stone buddhist images, also enjoyed making sculptures and Japanese poems. The structural method of the present skyscrapers in Japan are learned much from the flexibility of historical there/five story pagodas in Japan, which have been existing since the ages of Japanese Envoy to China in the Sui and Tung Dynasties, for over 1000 years, such as the Horyuji in Nara built 7th century AD.  Stone buddhist images and Japanese paintings were also influenced strongly from those of India, China and Korea. They developed gradually over the hundreds years into the characteristical culture of Japanese. The pottery is the same. Mr.Masaji Okubo has studied those traditions, particularly for the glazing techniques for the last 30 years. He has found a variety of glazes of his own. You can find his colors and textures are amazingly beautiful, probably you may not seen before in any other contemporaries.  He would continue to present for better, finer glazed potteries here at the MIYABIGAMA, as one of the followers of the Traditional Asian Cultures.