Shoji Hamada was a Japanese potter. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, and died in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. He studied ceramics at Tokyo Institute of Technology under Kawai Kanijiro, soon after he met Bernard Leach with whom he travelled to England in 1920. In 1955 the Japanese government designated him a "Living National Treasure". Wikipedia
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Shoji Hamada was born in Tokyo in 1894. At the age of nineteen he started to study ceramics at Tokyo Technical College, and two years later spent some time touring Japan's traditional pottery sites. In 1918 he met Bernard Leach , and within a year the t www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=108
