Wow very cool @karatsupots! Very good of you to try out and make a pot. Tradition is very important and sometimes new technologies aren't as great as the things that is made in a traditional way. Last week I was looking at videos how they make pottery on a wheel. It gave me a relaxed feeling to watch these videos. Hope making Japanese pots gives you also a relaxed feeling :-).
Yes! I think we modern humans tend to dismiss the intelligence of those who came before, just because of our technological superiority. They knew so much that we have forgotten.
Yep, totally true. But now we are in the position to discover how things were done on the traditional way and later we can give our knowledge to our children and the next generations.
And with any luck, add something new along the way!