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Shōji Hamada
Japanese artist ( – )
Shōji Hamada (濱田 庄司, Hamada Shōji, December 9, – January 5, ) was a Japanese potter.
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He had a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the mingei (folk-art) movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a pottery centre.[1] In he was designated a "Living National Treasure".
Biography
Hamada was born in Kawasaki, Japan, in , and was named Shoji (象ニ).
After finishing his studies at the elite Hibiya High School, he studied ceramics at Tokyo Institute of Technology, then known as Tokyo Industrial College[2] 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 city in search of inspiration.[3][4] They worked together in Kyoto at the former body of the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Technology and Culture[5]