Original Wooden Box
Showa
Living National Treasure
D10.7cm H8.5cm
An incense burner (koro) by Hamada Shoji (1894–1978), a designated Living National Treasure and a leading figure of Japan's Mingei (Folk Art) movement who brought Mashiko ware to global renown.
The piece features a fluid hakeme (white slip brushwork) background decorated with Hamada's iconic tokibi (sugarcane) design, rendered in bold, energetic iron-glaze brushstrokes. The unpretentious, robust form complements the spontaneous drawing, encapsulating the warm, healthy beauty central to Hamada's ceramic philosophy.
(Note: This piece is offered as the body only, without a pierced metal lid / hoya. It can be appreciated as an incense burner or repurposed as a small vessel or container.)
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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