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Original Box
Showa period
Living national treasure
D.16.5cm×11.5cm H.19.5cm
The white glaze is applied from above and the black glaze from below, and patterns are drawn on top of the white glaze using the finger painting technique. Finger painting is one of Shoji Hamada's representative techniques. Although simple, each piece has the charm of coincidence, as no two patterns are the same.
Shoji Hamada（濱田庄司）
1894 - 1978
He was a potter within the folk tradition of Japanese. He was a long-time friend of Kanjiro Kawai, Soetsu Yanagi, and Bernard Leach with whom he co-founded the Japan Folk Art Association in 1926. Hamada became an important figure in the Japanese folk arts movement. After 1923, he moved to Mashiko where he rebuilt farmhouses and established his large workshop. Throughout his life, Hamada demonstrated an excellent glazing technique, using such trademark glazes as temmoku iron glaze, nuka rice-husk ash glaze, and kaki persimmon glaze. Through his frequent visits and demonstrations abroad, Hamada influenced many potters of the world in later generations as well as those of his own.
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