Japan

“But once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

I did not try to make “animation” as we usually think of it, but a manga, or a cartoon film.

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads – at least that’s where I imagine it – there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks

Little has been done in Europe with ash glazes, but in Japan the ash glaze has been a predominant feature of pottery since its use was first discovered in the Nara period. The desire for a nonuniform surface that can catch, in the glaze of each pot, the irregularities of nature hails back to the Japanese love of things that are imperfect and

“Whew, you’re only sleeping for two hours?” But she would get up and start to work again. And that happened every day. Thinking this was outrageous, I approached the studio head, but his response was, “There’s no one else I can trust to do this work.” For her part, as well, she was an avid worker, who always said, “I’d rather do it myself than team