Focus Japan

Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi 

Aichi – Heartland of Japan’s Craft Traditions (Click to View)
(27 minutes; 2019; English and with subtitles)

Part of the series Cycle Around Japan, the documentary follows Michael Rice, a long term resident of Japan to explore Aichi Prefecture in Central Japan and its time honoured craft tradition, history and culture. Starting in Nagoya, one of Japan's biggest cities, he discovers a fermented soybean seasoning called Hama natto. Rice meets a potter who continues to practise a 200 year tradition of pottery called Tokoname-yaki teapots made from the rich soil found in the area and makers of inkstones carved from mountain rocks.