Bottle with sugarcane
After working in England with Bernard Leach, Hamada established his workshop in Mashiko, a small town north of Tokyo. He was a major figure of the mingei (folk craft) movement and drew inspiration from folk pottery styles, adopting local clay and glazes. His favored sugarcane motif, seen here, was ultimately reduced to abstraction after being painted thousands of times. Hamada’s demonstrations and exhibitions in the U.S. in 1952–53 had a major impact on potters, especially his hand-building and hand-spun wheel techniques.
Artwork Details
- 砂糖黍文徳利
- Title: Bottle with sugarcane
- Artist: Hamada Shōji (Japanese, 1894–1978)
- Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
- Date: ca. 1960s
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Stoneware with iron-oxide decoration
- Dimensions: H. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Richard and Peggy Danziger and Anonymous Gifts, 1994
- Object Number: 1994.289
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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