hamada shoji family

Hamada Tomoo 濱田友緒

1967-malemashiko potteryBorn in Mashiko Town. Second son of Hamada Shinsaku, grandson of Hamada Shoji1991 Completed Graduate School of Tama Art University1995 Traveled to England on a delegation from the town of Mashiko. St. Ives, London2000 Pottery East&West Exhibition, Ditchling Museum of Art　Exhibited and demonstrated2001 Solo exhibition at Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihonbashi (and every other year thereafter)2002 The Japan-America Cultural Center, Los Angeles　Exhibited in “Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists Exhibition2005 Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art　Exhibited in “Three Generations of Hamada-gama: Shoji, Shinsaku, and Tomoo2009 Solo exhibition at Reach Pottery, St. Ives　　 　Hamada Kiln Three Generations Exhibition” at Packer Gallery, Boston　Demonstrations (more…)

Hamada Atsuya 濱田篤哉

1931 -1988malemashiko potteryThird son of Hamada Shoji. Born in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. After graduating from Moka High School, he went to England in 1956 to study under Bernard Leach for two years. Solo exhibitions at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Nihonbashi and elsewhere. His works include a teapot and pitcher with bran, persimmon, black ground glaze and salt glaze. (more…)

Hamada Shoji 濱田庄司

1894-1978malemashiko potteryliving national treasureHamada Shoji was a renowned craftsman and representative figure in modern Japanese pottery. Born in Tokyo in 1894, he resolved to become a potter while still a student at Furitsuicchu (the Tokyo First Prefectural Jr. High School, Hibiya high school at present). After studying ceramics at the Tokyo Higher Technical School (present-day Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hamada joined the Kyoto Municipal Ceramic Laboratory, where he would meet his lifelong friend, Kawai Kanjiro. As Hamada later summarized the narrative arc of his career, “I found the path in Kyoto, began my journey in England, studied in Okinawa, and (more…)

Hamada Shinsaku 濱田晋作

1929-malemashiko potteryBorn as the second son of Living National Treasure Hamada Shoji, Shinsaku moved with his family to Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture when he was only several months old. It was here that he developed an interest in pottery, and it was in junior high school that he committed himself to carrying on his father’s legacy by becoming a pottery. Around 1950, at the same time as when he graduated from university, Hamada began his own training in pottery in his father’s workshop. In 1963, he served as an assistant to his father and Bernard Leach as they toured America giving (more…)