A glazed stoneware dish, attributed to Shoji Hamada, Japan, 1960s.

The Japanese ceramicist Hamada Shōji (1894-1978), who is one of the world's best known ceramicists. In the collections of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, there are now five ceramic objects by Hamada. A pair of them were purchased at the Swedish departmentstore NK in the 1950s and 60s, which then sold contemporary Japanese ceramics, a sign of the global significance which individual Japanese ceramicists, such as Hamada, had at that point. Source: Världskulturmuseerna, Stockholm