Vase
1931 (made)
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Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) was one of the leading potters of the Japanese Mingei (Folk Craft) movement. He was closely associated both with Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), the philosopher-critic on whose theories the movement was founded, and the pioneer English studio potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979), whom he helped establish the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall, during the early 1920s.
The Mingei movement developed in early twentieth-century Japan as a social and aesthetic crusade. It held ideas in common with the English Arts and Crafts theorists John Ruskin and William Morris about the value of hand-work and the negative effects of industrialisation and mass production. It actively sought to save and revive Japanese folk-craft traditions, which were becoming sidelined due to the forces of modernisation and urbanisation, and was part of a broader cultural movment in which Japan sought to articulate and assert a sense of national identity in the face of burgeoning westernisation.
The Mingei movement developed in early twentieth-century Japan as a social and aesthetic crusade. It held ideas in common with the English Arts and Crafts theorists John Ruskin and William Morris about the value of hand-work and the negative effects of industrialisation and mass production. It actively sought to save and revive Japanese folk-craft traditions, which were becoming sidelined due to the forces of modernisation and urbanisation, and was part of a broader cultural movment in which Japan sought to articulate and assert a sense of national identity in the face of burgeoning westernisation.
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Materials and techniques | Stoneware, thrown, with wax resist decoration against a thinly glazed brown ground |
Brief description | Vase, stoneware with wax resist decoration against a thinly glazed brown ground, made by Hamada Shoji, Mashiko, Japan, 1931 |
Physical description | Stoneware vase with an oval body and a short, thin neck. Decorated with a wax resist design of leaves and stems against a thinly glazed brown ground. Made by Hamada Shoji. |
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Gallery label | Vase
Stoneware with clear ash glaze, wax-resist decoration
and a secondary iron-bearing glaze
By Hamada Shoji JAPANESE; 1931 Circ.349-1939
Given by the Contemporary Arts Society(as at 2005) |
Credit line | Given by the Contemporary Art Society |
Production | Artist: Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) Biographical reference: L.P. Roberts, 'Dictionary of Japanese Artists' (New York/Tokyo, 1976), p.38: Gisela Jahn and Anette Petersen-Brandhorst, 'Erde und Feuer', Deutsches Museum (Munich, 1984), pp.198 - 199 JAPAN |
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Summary | Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) was one of the leading potters of the Japanese Mingei (Folk Craft) movement. He was closely associated both with Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), the philosopher-critic on whose theories the movement was founded, and the pioneer English studio potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979), whom he helped establish the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall, during the early 1920s. The Mingei movement developed in early twentieth-century Japan as a social and aesthetic crusade. It held ideas in common with the English Arts and Crafts theorists John Ruskin and William Morris about the value of hand-work and the negative effects of industrialisation and mass production. It actively sought to save and revive Japanese folk-craft traditions, which were becoming sidelined due to the forces of modernisation and urbanisation, and was part of a broader cultural movment in which Japan sought to articulate and assert a sense of national identity in the face of burgeoning westernisation. |
Bibliographic reference | 'Retrospective Exhibition of Shoji Hamada', National Museum of modern art (Tokyo, 1977) |
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Accession number | CIRC.349-1939 |
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Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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