旅行茶碗 - Trip Chawan

My school's study abroad students all - minus one or two - went to Shiga Prefecture on a day trip. One of the things we did was to make these rice bowls, or chawan. chawan is written with the characters for "tea" and "teacup", so your guess is as good as mine as to why it's a rice bowl.

Anyway, we were allowed to make one piece of random pottery. They recommended a chawan because they're fairly simple and hard to mess up. A lot of people did cool artsy stuff, I'm sure some people did not-so-cool artsy stuff, and... then there's mine. It's an ugly beast, but it does successfully keep my chopsticks on the top of the bowl where I want them, and that's all I was trying to do.

Mission accomplished, I guess.