tsuchikara pottery

Homemade Ice cream in my cup🍧
💜🩷🧡💚❤️💛
Blueberry & Oatmilk
Strawberry & Oatmilk
Mango & Oatmilk
Green peas & Miso & yogurt
Beets & Miso & white beans
Meyer lemon & white beans & yogurt

Designing Summer dessert cups

Right after trimming is my favorite stage of process.

Homemade Ice Cream made of Strawberry & SaikyoMiso & Yogurt, paired with iced Matcha

Mini plates with New clay, new glaze, new texture

Katakuchi and cups set in a wooden box

Minimalist cups, full of personality

IchigoBotamochi, Strawberry Mochi paired with Matcha
For Botamochi white strawberry and red strawberry wrapped with strawberry Anko (sweet white bean paste mixed with strawberry), and wrapped around cooked Mochigome (sweet rice) .

Anagama firing finished!
There are too many things to share, but unfortunately I can only post 4 pictures here.

My flowering quince has red, pink and white flowers in one plant!!

Happy Cat Day 2/22
Nyan Nyan Nyan ,Meow Meow Meow
🐈‍⬛ 🐈🐈‍⬛

Espresso from @kittytowncoffee ☕️😻
Pulled by @flairespressomaker
Cat sweets made of the finest sugar, called Wasanbon from Japan @baikodo

Thank you so much❣️🙏

In Japan, February 22nd is celebrated as “Cat Day” because the date, written as “2/22,” resembles the sound “nyan nyan nyan,” which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat’s meow.

Wagashi -Teatime cats- are made of beans, rice flour, cocoa, sugar, Matcha that I made on Cat Day (2/22/22)

ありがとうございます。
これって避けられない動きで、一気に100個が限度です。やりすぎに注意するしかないですね。

Lunch:
Onigiri, Misoshiru, veggies with tea
Simple but satisfying

味噌汁、ご飯、野菜が一番落ち着くお年頃

Sharing a process of making cups.
Just finished trimming 102 cups for our next Anagama firing.
Trimming small cups needs more muscle than trimming bigger pots. The muscles below my left thumb is crying.
102 個カップを削り終えたら、左親指の付け根の筋肉が痛くて泣く。

Congratulations 😍👍

Take your pet to work day, every day!
Since I mostly work at home, my cat, Prince comes to me whenever he wants to.
I was assembling teapots and he walked on my table, and on my arm. I just kept working till he gave up.

Teatime:
Herbal tea paired with homemade mini Matcha brûlée cake, Herbal cocktail salt sprinkled.

Evening walk

Walking after rain

Hoshigaki paired with Espresso:

My favorite way to eat hoshigaki is simply on its own.
However, when I serve it with matcha at tea gatherings, I sometimes slice it and fill it with anko—either sweet white bean paste, sweet whole adzuki bean paste, or sweet chestnut paste.

On Setsubun in Japan we eat Ehomaki- a whole Sushi roll, without cutting (I broke the rule), silently facing towards the lucky direction. It is said to bring good luck and prosperity for the new year. Ehomaki is typically filled with seven ingredients to represent the seven Gods of happiness.

Pumpkin tartine with espresso (Guatemala Amate from Heart Roaster)
It was a good pairing with pumpkin tartine. After roasting pumpkin, pureed and squeezed like Mont Blanc on goat cheese on sliced baguette, topped with roasted pumpkin, roasted seeds, and rosemary.

My grandmother grew strawberries in our home garden, along with other fruits and vegetables.
I enjoyed helping her with weeding and picking them. Of course, the most fun part was eating them! She grew the best strawberries and made the most delicious strawberry jams too!!!

Ochoko, sake cups

Teapot making video

I’m enjoying fresh and delicious micro-greens on rice balls and pour Saikyo miso (white miso)/mirin sauce.

•Amaranth-Red Garnet
•Kohlrabi-Purple Vienna
•Radish-Sango
•Sunflower-Black oil

Matcha Zenzai, Japanese sweets made of Matcha, Mochi (white & Matcha) , Adzuki bean Anko, and air fried Japanese sweet potato.
Served in my Chawanmushi cup with saucer & lid, “Chawanmushiki” .

Morning coffee with freshly made Chapati

Grinding coffee bean, watching coffee pouring, baking Chapati and dropping honey on.

All small things make my day.