Arita-yaki

June 19th, 2006

Arita

Over Golden Week every year, our neighboring town of Arita is home to the world’s largest pottery festival. That’s right, the world’s largest. Though outside of Japan I’m not aware of any pottery festivals, much less large-ish ones, but nevertheless it is quite a title. I’ve heard that upwards of 800,000 people head to hicksville to barter for gorgeous handmade goods, pick up a few rice bowls for the kiddos, and “window” shop for miles. The streets are lined with stalls, the stalls are crammed with people, and if the people are old, they’re probably pushing.

Old people* in this country are scary. They use their elbows in crowds and they’ll start a riot for a free pack of tissues.
*Okay, not all old people. But a lot of them. I just had to get that in somewhere…

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