Following the death in 1977 of his teacher, Hamada Shoji, Shimaoka Tatsuzo became a leader of the Japanese Folk Craft Movement. In 1953 he built his own workshop next to Hamada's in the town of Mashiko. He has trained foreign...
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Following the death in 1977 of his teacher, Hamada Shoji, Shimaoka Tatsuzo became a leader of the Japanese Folk Craft Movement. In 1953 he built his own workshop next to Hamada's in the town of Mashiko. He has trained foreign potters and has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. The molded square bottle form, which derives from European glass wine flasks, has been popular in Japan since the seventeenth century. Shimaoka decorated this piece by coating it with liquid clay (slip) and then carving through the slip, a technique inspired by Korean pottery.
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