Shizuoka
— the green between the mountain and the sea.
Not only on a wall.
“The prefecture along the Pacific coast of central Honshu where the south face of Mount Fuji meets the deep cut of Suruga Bay. Shizuoka grows about forty percent of Japan's green tea, and the terraced rows on the Makinohara plateau and the slopes around Kakegawa run for miles. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen connects Tokyo, Shizuoka City, and Hamamatsu in roughly an hour to ninety minutes.
Shizuoka, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Shizuoka Prefecture sits on the Pacific coast of central Honshu, Japan, bounded by Mount Fuji on the northeast and the long curve of Suruga Bay on the south. Its land area is 7,777 square kilometres, and the population is roughly 3.6 million, with Shizuoka City and Hamamatsu as the two largest urban centres. The prefecture covers the southern half of Mount Fuji, including the 3,776-metre summit, and the volcanic Izu Peninsula east of the bay. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen connects Tokyo, Shin-Fuji, Shizuoka, and Hamamatsu through the centre of the prefecture.
Shizuoka grows roughly forty percent of Japan's green tea, with the largest terraces on the Makinohara plateau and around Kakegawa and Fujieda. The first harvest, shincha, runs from late April through early May. The second flush follows in June, and summer and autumn pickings continue through October. The prefecture's mild winters, well-drained volcanic soil, and the morning mists rolling off Suruga Bay are why Sen no Rikyū's followers favoured the region for sencha. Mikan citrus along the coast and wasabi in the Izu mountain streams round out the year.
The Tōkaidō Shinkansen reaches Shizuoka City from Tokyo Station in about an hour, and Hamamatsu in roughly ninety minutes. The local Tōkaidō Main Line and the Izuhakone railway connect Atami, Mishima, Numazu, and the Izu Peninsula coastal towns. Mount Fuji's southern climbing trails, Fujinomiya and Gotemba, open from early July through mid-September. The Miho no Matsubara pine grove, a UNESCO World Heritage component of the Mount Fuji listing, runs along the Shimizu shore with the mountain framed across the bay from the seven-kilometre beach.