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Shōji Hamada(濱田 庄司, Hamada Shōji, December 9, 1894 – January 5, 1978) was a Japanese potter.
He was 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.
Hamada shoji biography of mahatma
In 1955 he was designated a "Living National Treasure".
Biography
Hamada was born in Kawasaki, Japan, in 1894 named Shoji (象ニ).
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 city in search of inspiration. They worked together in Kyoto at the former body of the Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Te