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.
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Shoji hamada was a japanese ceramicist and an important member of the mingei folk art movement.
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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.
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Ives cornwall eng in the early 1920s before establishing his own in mashiko.
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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.