One of the most memorable experiences of my life was floating in cold water off the coast of Japan, watching a sixty-three-year-old woman disappear beneath the surface with nothing but a mask and a metal chisel.
A new essay on the Ama divers of Toba and what survives when a way of life outlives the world that once required it.
IPJ 09 | The Ama of Toba
Not all practice happens in a workshop.
Sometimes it looks like returning.
Sometimes it looks like friendship.
Sometimes it means staying with something long enough to see it clearly.
A new essay on repetition, attention and what reveals itself over time.
IPJ 08 — Japan, Twenty-Six Trips In
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IPJ 07 | Moriyasu Kimura, Potter
On tenmoku and the limits of control.
A visit with one of Kyoto’s great ceramic artists, whose work lives somewhere between tradition, chance and decades of disciplined experimentation.
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#inpracticejournal #ceramics #kyoto #japanesecraft #pottery
Issue 04 of In Practice Journal is now live.
“Not Everything Survives” looks at the limits of craft transmission — and the conditions under which forms of work disappear.
Featuring blacksmiths and toolmakers photographed in Kyushu, Japan.
#japan #craft #shokunin
I went looking for mastery.
I found routine.
12 years later, I hear it differently — less philosophy, more practice.
Issue Three — Between Reverence and Routine
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#japan #shokunin #craft #sakai #knifemaker
In Practice is a journal exploring the quiet power of process-driven work.
At a moment defined by speed and instant output, it turns toward craft, transmission and embodied knowledge — not as nostalgia, but as lived discipline.
Issue One (Prologue) and Issue Two featuring @shuji_nakagawa are now live.
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