Shoji Hamada Ceramic Artist

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Shoji hamada ceramic artist.

With bernard leach he helped to. Check out our shoji hamada selection for the very best in unique or custom handmade pieces from our fine art ceramics shops. Shoji hamada was a japanese ceramicist and an important member of the mingei folk art movement. Shoji hamada 1894 1978 remains for many the leading studio potter of the 20th century a charismatic artist whose prodigious energy and natural ease as a thrower and decorator did most to bring the established language of japanese form and glazing into the modern age.

Hamada studied ceramics at the tokyo industrial college now the tokyo institute of technology and was also associated with the kyōto ceramic testing institute. View shoji hamada s 519 artworks on artnet. After finishing elitist hibiya high school he studied ceramics at tokyo institute of technology then known as tokyo industrial college with kawai kanjirō under itaya hazan as the sole students in the school interested in becoming artist potters hamada and the slightly elder kawai were soon friends touring the. Ives cornwall eng in the early 1920s before establishing his own in mashiko.

With the british potter bernard leach who also had great influence on contemporary ceramic art he established a kiln in st.