Coffee and Utsuwa 6th: Spin-off, Plates Take Centre Stage!

Since 2022 this series has been about the coffee cup. The sixth edition turns to the plate: the one under your cake, your baked sweets or your bread. Kyoto makers bring handmade plates in different materials and techniques, ceramics first among them, and you pick them up, turn them over and buy the one you want.

The museum lists 23 makers and workshops in the MOCAD Gallery, among them Nishide Masahide, Hoki, Shinroku Kiln and AIKA CRAFT, plus others. Kyoto Murakami Kaishindo, a long-established Western-style confectioner, supplies baked sweets; Globe Mountain Coffee's hand-drip stand had its last day on 25 October. Kyoto households spend more on bread than almost anyone in Japan, so a show about what to put it on was overdue.

Entry is free, and there was a queue when the doors opened on day one. Some pieces also sell on the museum's MOCAD online shop, including to buyers abroad. Open 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) until Friday 30 October.