Original Box
Showa Period
Living National Treasure
D:10cm×17cm H:20cm
This is a work by Shoji Hamada, a potter who played a central role in the folk art movement from the Taisho to Showa periods, along with Muneyoshi Yanagi and Kanjiro Kawai. The entire piece is decorated with shaded iron glaze, and both sides are painted with different round patterns. The glaze is broken at the edge of the mouth.
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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