Shozo Michikawa’s works have been called haikus in clay : ‘… my partner is nature itself and I need to get along well with it otherwise the result will be unsatisfactory. All I do in the process is to give a little helping hand to the ever transforming clay to assist the way it wants to go.’ Born in Hokkaido, north Japan, in 1953, Shozo Michikawa is one of Japan’s leading ceramicists and has e