the tea bowl I made at the Takeo pottery kiln

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Originally uploaded by abnihon.

it's upside down to show my name written in Japanese on the bottom.

I displayed it on my tatami mats for a more "Japanese" effect.

Speaking of tea, I may quit those tea ceremony lessons. They've stopped being fun and started being frustrating. She corrects every move I make, but in formal Japanese, using vocab words I don't know, and I barely understand anything she's saying. Last time I almost started crying. That's no good. I was only going to do it through the end of June anyways, so if I quit now, it's not really a big deal. I'll see how I feel about it next week.