Illustration: In a modest ceramics studio, a potter cups both wet hands around a clay bowl rising on an electric wheel. The bowl’s rim has developed a comically lopsided lip, and the potter studies it with affectionate concentration rather than discarding it.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

陶とう芸げい

tougei

pottery, ceramic art

Example sentences

  1. この地ちの陶芸とうげい家かの作品さくひんを展示てんじ・販売はんばいしている。

    It exhibits and sells the works by the local ceramic artists.

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  2. 陶芸とうげいにも優すぐれ、作品さくひんは蓮月焼れんげつしょうと呼よばれた。

    She also excelled in the art of pottery and her works of pottery were called Rengetsu-yaki.

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  3. 趣味しゅみの一ひとつである陶芸とうげいには特とくに熱ねつを上あげ、36歳さいの時ときには息子むすこに跡あとを譲ゆずり隠居いんきょしてしまう。

    He was so deeply absorbed in ceramic art, one of his hobbies, that he handed over the family business to his son and retired at the age of 36.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 陶芸

  • 陶pottery; porcelainOnトウKunすえ
  • 芸technique; artOnゲイ・ウンKunうえる・のり・わざ

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