Shigaraki Art Festival The 2nd Shigaraki Art Festival
Tuesday, October 1 to Sunday, October 20, 2013
Pottery in Shigaraki: 
     Discovery and Its Creation
Shigaraki is known as a pottery town, filled with old kiln sites and traditional Japanese homes (minka). Come discover the past, present, and future of Shigaraki through the various scenery that this village of ceramics overflowing with discovery and creativity has to offer. We await your visit to our life-sized dream we call home!
Shigaraki Art Festival Events

THE TANUKI Exhibition
  10/1-20 throughout Shigaraki
Shigaraki Pottery Festival
  10/1-20 Exhibition at the Traditional
  Crafts Center of Shigaraki 
The 60th Shigaraki Pottery Fair
  Anniversary Sale
  10/12-14 around the Shigaraki Regional
  Center (venue)
Inside Shigaraki Project
  10/1-20 throughout Shigaraki
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Events

Special Exhibition Treasure Chest of Sake Vessels 
  ~Ceramics for Enjoying Life, ~Series 1~
  10/2-12/15 at The Museum of Contemporary
  Ceramics, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park 
  *Tickets for entry to Shigaraki Ceramic
  Cultural Park and MIHO MUSEUM’s Autumn
  Special Exhibition, Negoro: Efflorescence of
  Medieval Japanese Lacquerware, on sale (for
  1,200 yen (scheduled price), normal price for
  both museums, 1,600 yen).
Shigaraki Q&A
  10/1-20 at Shigaraki Kōgen Railway
  We have a quiz on Shigaraki for passengers
  of the Shigaraki Kōgen Railway. The history
  and customs of Shigaraki as well as the
  townscapes and natural scenery that can be
  seen from the trains offer hints. Gifts will
  be given based on a lottery of those who
  answered all the questions correctly!
The 60th Shigaraki Pottery Fair and the 81st
  Comprehensive Shigaraki Ceramics Exhibition,
  Things Passed Down in Shigaraki
  10/1-20 in the Exhibition Hall of Industrial
  Ceramics, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Eating Ochazuke (Rice with Green Tea) Program
  “Which ochazuke bowl would you choose?”
  10/1-20 in the Exhibition Hall of Industrial
  Ceramics, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
THE TANUKI Exhibition
Features primarily potters in Shigaraki 
in this all Shigaraki project!
Exterior Ceramics, Now and Then
  10/1-20 in the Exhibition Hall of Industrial
  Ceramics and Outdoors, The Shigaraki Ceramic
  Cultural Park
Kanayama Noborigama (Climbing Kiln) Firing Project
  10/1-4 Firing, 10/20 Removing from kiln
  * Registration by 7/31.
    Kinzan Climbing Kiln at the Shigaraki Ceramic
    Cultural Park
Ceramic Art Market 2013
  10/12-14 at the Sun Plaza, The Shigaraki
  Ceramic Cultural Park
The Shigaraki Art Festival 2013 Executive Committee 
The Information Center in the East Wing of the Shigaraki Regional Center
1203 Nagano Shigaraki-chō, Kōka City, Shiga Prefecture 529-1851
tel. 0748-70-3304   fax 0748-70-3141 
Official site: http://www.shigaraki-fes.com



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