HAMADA Shôji
(Japan 1894–1978)
- Title
- Rectangular bottle-vase with iron glaze
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Year
- pre 1954
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware, press moulded and cut
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 15.3 x 8.0cm
- Signature & date
- Signed box
- Credit
- Bequest of Patricia Englund 2005
- Accession number
- 173.2005
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
Hamada Shoji started studying ceramics at the Tokyo Technical College and then went to work as a glaze technician at the Kyoto Ceramic Institute, where he conducted thousands of experiments. In 1918 he befriended the English potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979) and two years later he accompanied Leach to Britain to help him build a Japanese-style kiln at St Ives in Cornwall. Their works were largely inspired by English slipware. He returned to Japan in 1923 and established a workshop at Mashiko, north of Tokyo. In 1955 he was designated a Living National Treasure. Hamada visited Australia in 1965.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, June 2005.
