白土盃

Encounters That Change Creation

Steve Jobs and his wife visited the first Kyoto solo exhibition of the Ecchu-Seto ware potter Yukio Shakunaga, and he came three times in all while it was on. The notes in which, it is said, he asked about nothing but the clay; and what became of a black half-cylinder tea bowl. Here, just as it was written, is the essay by 金木 静, a friend of forty years.