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Shoji hamada ceramic artist.
With the british potter bernard leach who also had great influence on contemporary ceramic art he established a kiln in st.
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.
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With bernard leach he helped to.
Hamada was born in kawasaki japan in 1894 named shoji 象ニ.
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.
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Shoji hamada was a japanese ceramicist and an important member of the mingei folk art movement.