with a signed box
Showa period
Living National Treasure
D17cm H22cm
This Square jar has a shape unique to Hamada and is made from a mold. The square body with a wide octagonal mouth is reminiscent of the ancient Chinese jade vessels known as “sous” (琮). The form is innovative, powerful, and stable, with a robust charm that is unmistakably Hamada.
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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