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Hamada Shōji 濱田庄司

Hamada Shōji - Artists - Joan B Mirviss LTD | Japanese Fine Art | Japanese Ceramics

Hamada Shōji - Artists - Joan B Mirviss LTD | Japanese Fine Art | Japanese Ceramics

(1894-1978)

HAMADA SHŌJI attained unsurpassed recognition at home and abroad for his simple approach to functional ceramics. Early on he worked with Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890-1966) in Kyoto at the Kyoto Ceramics Research Institute. Inspired by Okinawan and Korean ceramics in particular, Hamada became an important figure in the Mingei (Japanese folk arts) Movement in the 1960s and was a founding member of the Japan Folk Art Association together with Bernard Leach, Kawai Kanjirō, and Yanagi Sōetsu.

After 1923, he moved to Mashiko where he rebuilt farmhouses and established his large workshop. Throughout his life, Hamada demonstrated a wide range of painterly glazing, using such trademark glazes as tenmoku (iron), nuka (rice-husk ash glaze), and kaki (persimmon glaze). Through frequent visits, exhibitions, and demonstrations abroad, Hamada influenced many Western potters and his legacy continues to do so. He was designated a Living National Treasure in 1955.

Images

Very large shallow bowl with nuka (rice-husk) white glaze ground with ladle-poured iron-glazed black trailing design

Very large shallow bowl with nuka (rice-husk) white glaze ground with ladle-poured iron-glazed black trailing design
ca. 1950-1960
Glazed stoneware
19 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
SOLD

Square bottle-vase with vertical bands and patterning in red and green glazes and persimmon glaze

Square bottle-vase with vertical bands and patterning in red and green glazes and persimmon glaze
ca. 1970
Glazed stoneware
9 1/2 x 4 x 4 in.
SOLD

Vessel with resist patterning, ca. 1976

Vessel with resist patterning

ca. 1976

Persimmon-glazed stoneware

10 x 8 1/2 x 8 in.

Inv# 10726

SOLD

Charger, 1974

Charger

1974

Glazed stoneware

5 3/4 x 21 in.

Inv# 8635

SOLD

Hamada Shoji, iron-oxide-glazed, tsubo, ca. 1945-1950, glazed stoneware, Japanese ceramics, Japanese pottery, Japanese tsubo, Japanese iron-oxide glaze, Japanese modern ceramics

Iron-oxide glazed tsubo
ca. 1945-1950
Glazed stoneware
8 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Inv# 7380
SOLD

Hamada Shoji, bottle vase, ca. 1960, glazed stoneware, Japanese ceramics, Japanese pottery, Japanese bottle vase, Japanese iron glaze, Japanese modern ceramics

Square bottle vase with dark greenish-black, dripping, painted designs on sides
ca. 1960
Glazed stoneware
9 1/4 x 4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.
Inv# 8802
SOLD

Curved and flattened jar with creamy white, dark grey and black bleeding glazes, 1960

Curved and flattened jar with creamy white, dark grey and black bleeding glazes

1960

9 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.

Inv# 4292

SOLD

Hamada Shoji, iron-glazed vessel, nuka-glazed, glazed stoneware, ca. 1960, Japanese ceramics, Japanese pottery, Japanese vessel, Japanese iron glaze, Japanese modern ceramics

Iron-glazed rectangular vessel with nuka-glazed circular medallions with plant motifs and faceted octagonal mouth, ca. 1960
Glazed stoneware
10 x 5 in.
Inv# 9169
SOLD

Very large shallow bowl with nuka (rice-husk) white glaze ground with ladle-poured iron-glazed black trailing design

Square bottle-vase with vertical bands and patterning in red and green glazes and persimmon glaze

Vessel with resist patterning, ca. 1976

Hamada Shoji, iron-oxide-glazed, tsubo, ca. 1945-1950, glazed stoneware, Japanese ceramics, Japanese pottery, Japanese tsubo, Japanese iron-oxide glaze, Japanese modern ceramics

Hamada Shoji, bottle vase, ca. 1960, glazed stoneware, Japanese ceramics, Japanese pottery, Japanese bottle vase, Japanese iron glaze, Japanese modern ceramics

Curved and flattened jar with creamy white, dark grey and black bleeding glazes, 1960

Hamada Shoji, iron-glazed vessel, nuka-glazed, glazed stoneware, ca. 1960, Japanese ceramics, Japanese pottery, Japanese vessel, Japanese iron glaze, Japanese modern ceramics

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