Shōji Hamada
1894
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1978
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Mingei
country of citizenship: Japan
educated at: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hibiya High School
occupation: ceramicist, potter
award received: Order of Culture, Person of Cultural Merit
Shōji Hamada (濱田 庄司, Hamada Shōji, December 9, 1894 – January 5, 1978) was a Japanese potter. 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 world-renowned pottery centre. In 1955 he was designated a "Living National Treasure". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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