Shōji Hamada
1894 - 1978
Selected Honours and Awards
| 1974 | Completed museum for Hamada folk crafts collection in Mashie, Japan |
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| 1973 | Receives honorary Doctor of Art degree from Royal College of Art, London, England |
| 1968 | Receives Okinawa Times Award and Order of Culture from Emperor, Japan |
| 1962 | Appointed Director of the Japan Folk Art Museum |
| 1955 | Designated as 'Living National Treasure,' by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
| 1953 | Received Minister of Education Award for Art |
| 1949 | Received Tochigi Prefecture Culture Award |
Public Collections
The British Museum, London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Leach Pottery Museum, Cornwall, UK
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan
Mashiko Sankokan Museum, Tochigi, Japan
Tochigi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, Tochigi, Japan
Kyoto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan (Museum of Modern Art), Kyoto, Japan
Togei Messe Mashiko (Ceramic Art Museum), Tochigi, Japan
York Art Gallery, UK
Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK
Musée nationale de Céramiques, Sèvres, France
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Los Angeles County Museum, LA, USA
Honolulu Art Museum, Hawaii, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Smithsonian, Washington, USA
Lisa Sainsbury Ceramic Collection, Sainsbury Centre, UEA, Norwich, UK
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Tate Museums, UK