- Following 880
- Followers 13.5K
- Engagement 7.41%
- Avg likes 828
- Avg comments 18
About Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata
Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata (@studiotouya) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 13,466 followers and 1,154 published posts. Recent posts average 828 likes and 18 comments, an engagement rate of 7.41%.
With 13.5K followers, Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata follows 880 accounts, so the audience is roughly 15 times the size of the list followed. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata runs to 18 words. The bio mentions @hitomishibataceramics and @takuroshibataceramics. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata dates from March 2026.
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1,154 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata has built a substantial archive of 1,154 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 12 followers for each post published. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata also keeps 9 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 98 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include hitomishibata, takuroshibata, pottery, wood and online. The captions tag #studiotouya, #hitomishibata, #takuroshibata, #woodfiredpottery and #柴田日登美.
#studiotouya #hitomishibata #takuroshibata #柴田日登美 #柴田拓郎
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#studiotouya #hitomishibata #takuroshibata #柴田日登美 #柴田拓郎
Handmade in Seagrove, North Carolina, and fired in our wood kiln. Each bowl is one of a kind, shaped by ash and flame.
Online Sale
Saturday, June 20
2 PM (Eastern Time)
#studiotouya #woodfiredpottery #anagama #woodfire #functionalpottery
Here’s a glimpse into the process behind the plates from our latest wood firing.
Our online sale opens this Saturday, June 20, at 2 PM (Eastern Time), with a preview available Friday evening from 6–10 PM (Eastern Time).
We hope you’ll enjoy taking a look at the new collection.
#studiotouya #hitomishibata #takuroshibata #woodfiring #pottery
We selected about 40 pots from our latest wood firing.
To give you a sneak peek, you’re invited to preview the collection on Friday, June 19th, from 6 PM to 10 PM (Eastern Time) on our website.
We hope you’ll join us for this online sale.
#studiotouya #hitomishibata #takuroshibata #onlinesale #pottery
We had a wonderful time and great conversations with you. Thank you for your support!
#studiotouya #hitomishibata #takuroshibata #woodfiredpottery seagrovewoodfire
Saturday, June 6 | 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Sunday, June 7 | 10:00 AM–3:00 PM
Hitomi
Takuro
#SeagroveWoodFireTour #StudioTouya #WoodFiredPottery #hitomishibata #takuroshibata takuroshibata
#woodfiredceramics #woodfiredpottery #woodfiring #japanesepottery
#Repost
“Carrying Fire Across the Ocean: Our Wood-Firing Journey”
By HITOMI SHIBATA
Working in Two Pottery Cultures: Shigaraki and Seagrove
Shigaraki, a small town steeped in a thousand-year legacy of pottery, was one of the few places in Japan where young potters not born into pottery families could learn how to make a living from clay. At times, we took on mass production for the commercial market – not our preferred path, but a necessary one to support ourselves. While we sold our pots through galleries and wholesale markets, we also balanced various other jobs. Although we were unable to build our own wood kiln in Shigaraki, we embraced every opportunity to participate in wood firings, steadily gaining the knowledge and skills needed to grow as professional potters. These formative experiences instilled in us the confidence to pursue our careers wherever we might be.
In Seagrove, we are able to make the pots we want to create, using local clays, wood ash from our own kiln for making ash glazes, and firewood sourced from nearby sawmills – often repurposing scrap wood as an essential fuel. We value our access to these local resources and work diligently to bring them into balance. This slow, labor-intensive process allows us to create distinctive, handcrafted work, while giving us time to experiment with the region’s beautiful clays and to cultivate a grounded way of life.
Despite the significant differences between Japanese and American pottery traditions, a shared reverence for good clay and wood firing connects these two cultures. We feel deeply fortunate to have lived and worked within such rich and supportive pottery communities.
To read this month’s FREE article, follow the link in our bio.
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Hi, I’m Hitomi Shibata, a Japanese ceramic artist and I live in Seagrove, North Carolina, which is the biggest potters community in the US. My husband, Takuro Shibata and I set up our pottery studio “Touya (陶家)”, built two wood kilns, a new house for our family, a pottery gallery, and we make our ceramic works using beautiful wild clays from North Carolina. Today I am taking over Ceramics Monthly Instagram, and I would like to talk about my work in this post.
My ceramic works are made with local wild clays from North Carolina where Native Americans found plastic clays and made earthenware for thousands of years, and then European Immigrants established stoneware pottery traditions for a couple of hundred years. Using local wild clays and natural materials can express the beautiful colors from mother earth.
I try to reduce machine-made elements from my making processes as much as possible, and just use my hands, simple tools, locally harvested and made clays, natural materials, and wood firing methods which are renewable and sustainable in our region. It’s my life-long experiment, a journey from Japan to the US, and a fusion of ceramic art between different cultures that I lived and loved.
#studiotouya #hitomishibata #ncclay #wildclay
Thanks to
for giving us this opportunity and working with us to make this possible.
See more info at:
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Special thanks to
#SteveBlankenbeker and Kate Oggel for their big support.
Many thanks to our friend potters in the US and overseas for telling us their wonderful clay stories.
#furutanikazuya
#francessenska
#gilbertonarciso
#ryuichikakurezaki
Cover photo: NC wild raw clays by
Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata's engagement
Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata's engagement rate on Instagram is 7.41%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 828 likes and 18 comments, close to 46 likes for each comment.
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7.41%
- Avg likes
- 828
- Avg comments
- 18
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 13
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Who is Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata?
Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata (@studiotouya) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata runs to 18 words.
How many followers does Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata have?
Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata has 13,466 followers on Instagram (13.5K). Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata follows 880 accounts, so the audience is roughly 15 times the size of the list followed. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata has built a substantial archive of 1,154 posts.
What is Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata's engagement rate?
Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata's engagement rate on Instagram is 7.41%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 828 likes and 18 comments, close to 46 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata repeatedly use the words hitomishibata, takuroshibata, pottery, wood and online. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata's captions carry hashtags such as #studiotouya, #hitomishibata and #takuroshibata. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata writes those captions mainly in English. Studio Touya: Hitomi Shibata keeps 9 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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