 Hey! Wooded hills and rocky cliffs surround a valley, Areta, Japan. In a lush green town, water trickles through narrow stone canals. Paper porcelain, designed by Sholton and Bynes. My name is Jin Harada of Hosunkama, and I am a pottery maker. Tan stones sit in an outdoor pile. My ancestors started making porcelain in Areta. And I am currently the 13th in line. White molds line a shelf. One of the essential elements in producing the paper porcelain was that the quality had to be top-notch, and I think that was the main reason we were chosen to produce them. One might think that this will break easily, as it is very thin. But since we use strong solid stones with high intensity to produce paper porcelain, powdered stone runs through fingers, and a fine, creamy white vase is dabbed with a sponge. They are very durable, yet extremely thin. First and foremost, you have to select the right stones in order to get the right color. Then you crush them and add water so they turn into clay. A cylinder of tan clay is extruded and sliced. Then you dissolve the clay and pour them into a white mold. A potter leaves vases on a drying rack. After they dry, we make modifications of the lines by hand. Another potter traces and sands the vases' lines, which resemble thin ribs on a segmented dome, and put them in the oven at 1300 degrees Celsius. Finally, we will use a machine to polish the surface layers. A shiny, wet vase is hand-plunged into a vat of churning gravel, then placed on a shelf, as we cannot have a rough or sharp texture. Based on the designs by Shulton and Bynes, tabs are hand-painted onto a white saucer using a thick brush with a fine tip. We painted an image of a scotch tape onto the saucer. Finished pieces are packaged in fitted cardboard boxes, which are adorned with product and company names, and a line drawing of the object inside. It's obviously not easy to produce the paper porcelain product, and one would need to have them know-how and techniques for executing each process. It's a little secret, and I think the customers can experience it for themselves. Jin Harada puts down his paper porcelain teacup.