LIN YINHAI

Visit to Hasami (1)

Hasami, located in Nagasaki Prefecture, is a typical Japanese countryside town and one of the major Japanese ceramic wares. Currently, Hasami is one of the most popular choices for daily tableware in many Japanese households, and Hasami products are all the tableware used in ordinary Japanese households, accounting for about 13% of this production. Compared to the raw materials used in Mino ware, Hosojo ware uses very little clay, so it is relatively light for daily use, and the whole tableware is thick and not easily broken. Compared to Arita ware, Hosojo ware is suitable for daily use, and the price is also acceptable to medium and high-end households.

This was something I knew from the beginning of my training.

On the first day of the course, I found the pasta-making part difficult. People in southern countries generally don't make their own pasta.

The noodles are basically pristine, but there are still some slight differences between how their noodles are made and how Chinese noodles are made.

After dinner, I started to learn about ceramic production factories, mainly in China, as I have never seen such a new ceramic factory before.

However, later I learned that the production plant had been replaced, and when I went to the old plant, it looked similar to the ceramic plant in China that I had visited before. However, I felt that it was a really good thing to be able to innovate.

After that, we were asked to fill in the blanks, but because I'm not very good at drawing, I could only draw very abstract pictures.

The teapot body is now complete. It still needs to be fired, so you can't take it home right away.

I can't wait to receive my very own teapot!

Visit to Hasami (2)

On the second day, we went hiking with a local guide to Onigigo on the Boso Peninsula. The scenery was amazing, it had been a long time since I had seen such a view. The color of the rice was also very good, and I had heard from people who had eaten it that the texture was very good.

If you walk to the top of the mountain, you can also taste the local tea, which tastes good, but I personally don't like grinding the tea leaves into powder. However, the way of drinking tea varies from place to place, and the way of brewing Japanese tea is still traditional, so it's a good experience. Also, the local honey is very tasty.

A healthy meal with colorful vegetables For lunch, I had rice noodles. I think the way rice noodles are prepared in Japan is quite unique, but the taste was unexpectedly delicious.

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And flavour wise it is definitely superior to the Chinese recipe.

The activity in the afternoon was a treasure hunt in the river, where we could find porcelain that was 400 years old. The reason is that the local people buried the remains of the fire at that time, but due to the time period, it was washed down the mountain into the river. This activity was very interesting to me because at the end of finding the treasure, someone else will explain it to us. In the end, the treasure I found was almost 200 years old, which I felt was very good.

Finally, I would like to say that Boso Springs is truly worth seeing.