Milton, John (1608-1674)
Author of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
Lotus Moon / Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Milton Moon (29 Oct 1926 - 6 Sept 2019)
Lineage name bearer. Potter, Australia.
Robert Yellin's Japanese Pottery Blog
26 May 2008
A good friend of mine recently returned from 'Down Under' and brought back a wonderful book, 'The Zen Master, the Potter and the Poet' by Milton Moon.
It is a special book full of Moon-sensei's anecdotes of many journeys to Japan, his insights into good pots and the wisdom that can be found when one listens to them in silence. Mr. Moon, if you ever visit Japan again please allow me to take you to Ryutakuji, if you haven't already been, and we can retrace the steps of Hakuin, and also Tsuji Seimei, the photo of him in the previous posting was taken at Ryutakuji. Blessings abound....
Milton Moon leaves us his own excellent archive website :
A free-form platter 33 by 34 cms.
This is the last entry on my website, which, I hope will be still here after I am gone, at least for a few years. The last pots of my life I make will be for me.
I do have a last comment: it is an archival website and shows just some of my journey with clay, and I hope it brings inspiration to some younger potters, but as a wise friend countenanced, 'to copy is not creative, it is merely contrivance.'
Finally, I am grateful for those agents, who over the long period of my creative life, have believed in my work and have supported me. To them I say 'thank-you.'
Lotus rising from the mud, reaching for the moon [enlightenment).
collection FIAPCE
Milton Moon (29 Oct 1926 - 6 Sept 2019)
Lineage name bearer. Potter, Australia.
Robert Yellin's Japanese Pottery Blog
26 May 2008
A good friend of mine recently returned from 'Down Under' and brought back a wonderful book, 'The Zen Master, the Potter and the Poet' by Milton Moon.
It is a special book full of Moon-sensei's anecdotes of many journeys to Japan, his insights into good pots and the wisdom that can be found when one listens to them in silence. Mr. Moon, if you ever visit Japan again please allow me to take you to Ryutakuji, if you haven't already been, and we can retrace the steps of Hakuin, and also Tsuji Seimei, the photo of him in the previous posting was taken at Ryutakuji. Blessings abound....
Milton Moon leaves us his own excellent archive website :
This is the last entry on my website, which, I hope will be still here after I am gone, at least for a few years. The last pots of my life I make will be for me.
I do have a last comment: it is an archival website and shows just some of my journey with clay, and I hope it brings inspiration to some younger potters, but as a wise friend countenanced, 'to copy is not creative, it is merely contrivance.'
Finally, I am grateful for those agents, who over the long period of my creative life, have believed in my work and have supported me. To them I say 'thank-you.'
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
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someone looks at something...
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