Looking around this exhibition space, one would be hard-pressed to find five more wildly distinct potters to represent the town of Mashiko.
For Japan, the history of ceramics is the history of its belief systems, its cultural values - to a greater or lesser extent, it is the history of its people.
Lying some 60 miles north of the swarming metropolis of Tokyo, the pottery town of Mashiko rests beneath the shallow slopes of Mt Takadate.