Thursday, August 28, 2003

Astronomical Surface Decorations on Ceramics, Japan part IV Using the names of the directions listed on Steve Renshaw and Saori Ihara's Astronomy in Japan Home Page, I searched Google for info on ceramics that may contain those names in their descriptions. After wading through umpteen zillion anime and manga fan sites, I am no closer. However, I think this is a good approach as the decorations on ceramics may be described more along the lines of their constellation/mythlogical elements than astronomical. (Thanks again, Rob Johnson!) 11:26:25 PM

Astronomical Surface Decoration on Ceramics Japan, part III. This seems to be going the way of my research on the Chinese. I am not able to find much of anything on the Internet. One would think that there would be pottery, tablets, or something out of clay with celestial images...but I don't see it. Sure, there maybe a few decorations taken form well known constellations, but I am not able to find much of that either. I did see that they planned on making an area for the tea ceremony on the International Space station. It is not possible to keep the tea in cups and we cant (sic) have tea floating around. Yoshihiro Nakamura So maybe no ceramic decoration there either (not many details that I can find.) 12:04:24 AM