Mashiko, Japan [056] Shoji Hamada (045)

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Title Mashiko, Japan [056] Shoji Hamada (045)
Photo Number Box 62, Special Lectures, Japan, Special Lecture on the famous Japanese Potter Shoji Hamada, 18
Description Photo showing an interior (tokonoma) and staggered shelves (chigai-dana) in the guest house at Shoji Hamada's farm, Mashiko, Japan
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1959
Subject Guesthouses--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Interior architecture--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Tokonoma (Architecture)--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Folk art--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Pottery, Japanese--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Artists--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Potters--Japan--Mashiko--Photographs; Hamada, Shōji, 1894-1978--Photographs; Japan; Interior architecture; Art; Folk art; Ceramics
Keywords Houses; Guest houses; Interiors; Tokonoma; Alcoves; Chigai-dana; Arts & crafts; Arts and crafts; Mingei; Mashikoyaki; Mashiko-yaki; Mashiko yaki
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Spatial Coverage Tochigi-ken (Japan); Mashiko-machi (Japan)
Caption on Slide Tokonoma, Hamada's guest house, Mashiko, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Shōji Hamada (December 9, 1894 - January 5, 1978) was a Japanese potter. He was a significant influence on studio pottery of the twentieth century, and a major figure of the mingei folk-art movement, establishing the town of Mashiko as a world-renowned pottery centre. ... In 1955 the Japanese government designated him a 'Living National Treasure.'--Wikipedia. Note: Mashiko (Mashiko-machi) is a town located in Haga District, Tochigi, Japan ... Mashiko is known for its pottery, called mashikoyaki (益子焼). Early pottery in Mashiko dates back to the Jōmon and Yayoi periods. Mashikoyaki is often thought of as a simple and rustic in style, brown with maybe a little red glaze, but modern pottery made in Mashiko today is found in many styles, because of the creative freedom brought to Mashiko by Shoji Hamada. Modern Mashikoyaki dates only to 1853, when a potter discovered that local clay here was ideal for ceramics.--Wikipedia.
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s6wd4h1w
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 335984
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd4h1w
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