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Toto Shuppan Co, Tokyo, 1963. hardcover, 8½" x 12", with dust jacket. Battered, worn & gapped jacket. VERY GOOD book in FAIR unclipped dust jacket. This book is illustrated with 10 colour plates, 25 b&w plates, 363 figures, and 27 charts, graphs etc. In this book Japan's most traditional pottery-making method - hand modelling - is described and shown in a step-by-step approach. The author has included many traditional secrets of the potter's trade that he learned from his father and other teachers as well as tricks he has devised himself (eg: temperature curve used in firing; a table for glaze compounds, and other valuable tables).