With bernard leach he helped to.
Shoji hamada ceramic artist.
Shoji hamada was a japanese ceramicist and an important member of the mingei folk art movement.
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Hamada studied ceramics at the tokyo industrial college now the tokyo institute of technology and was also associated with the kyōto ceramic testing institute.
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Hamada was born in kawasaki japan in 1894 named shoji 象ニ.
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Shoji hamada 1894 1978 remains for many the leading studio potter of the 20th century a charismatic artist whose prodigious energy and natural ease as a thrower and decorator did most to bring the established language of japanese form and glazing into the modern age.
With the british potter bernard leach who also had great influence on contemporary ceramic art he established a kiln in st.
Ives cornwall eng in the early 1920s before establishing his own in mashiko.