Shoji Hamada Pottery

[iampeeay01]

woohoo!!! very impressive... two thumbs up for this video.

[insomniacgrace]

Wow. Napakahusay at magaling.

[1Ma9iN8tive]

おどろくべき...Miharo rawa atu tenei mahi o te tohunga whakaahua uku nei

[1Ma9iN8tive]

おどろくべき

Read "A Potters Way and Work" by Susan Peterson...a wonderful biography of the humble master Shoji Hamada.

[jymstone3]

Seeing him work stills my soul. Reminds me of my days studying ceramics. Beautiful Kyoto melodies; so appropriate.

[ilegalSmile420]

Very nice!! this has helped me improve, i started this winter Check out my work on on facebook if you have time i have alot of my pots on there search Blue Earth Pottery, thanks

[CaramelCleo]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you for uploading this. 

[thepoteriefievet]

tourne vraiment plus mal qu'Alain Fievet !

[JTtheNinja]

Does the tape you have say what the first thing Hamada's shown making is? Also, I'd be interested to see the footage of him making the spout for the hot water pot. []

[MslitoOne]

very cool love it i am doing a reacerch on shoji hamada=D

[SpifySavannah]

There is something abut Chinese black and white films that is so mesmerizing to me.. 0.0

[pattigold]

thank you so much for posting Shoji Hamada!!! whou would have ever thought we could see him at work. I'd love to see the second part of this water bottle if you have it.

[yelkcubnai]

Does anyone know what the music is?

[jmg1957]

well done......

[charnas1000]

Thank you so much! What a joy to come across videos of Shoji Hamada.

[Sooozee]

If I don't get my hands back into the clay I will absolutely die!!!!

[SwGkentuckyC]

impressive i have never seen shoki hamadas work before

[doydeedum]

He is a great inspiration.

[kanoncherrykitten]

はまだーさん　じょうずな　です！！

[SG693]

Anne-Bridget says, "he's the Man" !

[mbqna]

It's off center as fuck!

[tripanfal]

Hamada did not need to throw on center

[rosyyaoi2]

Hamada didn't throw completely evenly. he didn't like to have his things even.

[MatthewDLG]

How old is this video?

[samkellystudio]

1965 in Australia

[cgrong]

I like the way he doesn't obsess about keeping the clay perfectly centered

[october101977]

No matter how many times I watch a potter, or do it myself, I can never get over how beautiful it is!

[HenriekeIStrecker]

Thank you so much. I would like to see/know more about the technique.

I just started pottery.

[sleachpots]

Excellent stuff !!- please lets have MORE ! SL

[bhairava2]

Wonderful! Perfect gesture without any tension. Many thanks for the video, i couldnt imagine to see one day Hamada at work.

[guywolff]

I love Hamada's throwing a lot.One interesting point to watch for. In Japan the wheel is going clockwise so the leading strong Right hand (if Hamada is right handed)is on the inside of the pot. In the west the leading right hand is on the outside of the pot. This makes quite a difference . All the best , guy wolff

[elshisu]

Before the electric is the kick wheel, but even before that is just a very slow turning of the piece in an almost fix surface. All three ways have a deep effect on the result, but all three are still alive today and some people still prefer to use not even a kick or stick wheel, for instance in the southwest (USA) or in many parts of Mexico. As for myself I have tried all except the electric wheel.

When it comes to writing I like handwriting and computer, not the typewriter.

[chopin65]

What difference does an electric wheel have on the outcome of the form? Is there an appreciable difference in how it affects the process?

I ask because I am a writer and switched from a typewriter to a computer and it had a huge impact on my writing.

[onomatchi]

The electric wheel gives the potter more fine control over the piece they are throwing, while a momentum wheel with it's constantly changing speed promotes a more flowing or organic nature to the finished piece

[chopin65]

Thank you. Again I see a relationship in the way a technology shapes the artist craft. Writing on the computer often means more revisions and in a smaller space of time. This video is so fascinating. You can move and alter text in ways not possible with hand writing or using a type writer. Old school writers attach a sense of nostalgia to using typewriters, but I think they are more cumbersome.

[sepand123456]

im new to throwing, what does the stick do?

[drdanthedjman]

teah lot of the master korean japanese potters throw that way its kind of a heritage and wheels there basickly all go ne direction my past teacher has a master fine arts degree and learned from some of the grand masters that were around about awhile ago she taught the korean way if u learn it its makes things so much more simpiler while throwing

[KenshinForever]

i love shoji hamada!

[Joey8sammy]

I was really quite surprised to see the enclosed top for a hot water bottle after several minutes of raising/lowering and sorting out a lip on the bottle form which I thought went rather wrong and then a change of plan seemed to appear. Interesting to see SH's thoughts evolve as perhaps, as I stand to be corrected, pots just evolve.

[smithceramics]

I think he made a hollow form that he will later cut for the water pot's lid... where are there more Shoji Hamada videos?

[brucelinda01]

did not play all the way through

[Catnipsta]

Would it not be more efficient to use a lathe type wheel? as it is still human powered.

[Bodhi89]

a lathe type?

[smilingschip]

I didn't know he was leftie!

[nickross101]

How beautiful. How profound.

[rahulaurangabadkar]

hi, i am not sure about his being left handed, cos hi revolves wheel with right hand. but the wheel revolves clock wise, may be thats the reason he uses the 'other' hand as compared to anti clockwise wheel. i am not too sure

[BLACKCLIFFS]

hello,

My teacher Mick Arnup asked me which way I'd like the wheel to spin so I had a few goes at centering and liked clockwise.

I have a Hamada wheel but I mostly use it for putting footrings on rectangular platters which are draped over a wooden hump mold.

The usual reason given for clockwise wheels is that the right hand is usually stronger for using the stick. However lots of eastern potters Throw clockwise.

My Japanese student Aya Ikeda also threw lefthanded although she is righthanded.

[BelleAmelie]

Simply marvelous! The best potter I've ever seen!

[Bodhi89]

really?

[pilwc]

brilliant

[n8attack]

What is he doing at the onset of this video. Is that a vessel he removed?

[tobiashumm]

exzellent video of a old grand master of pottery!

[blekima]

I am a potter myself and every time I see this wonderful video of my favorite potter I get courage to continue...He is such an example for all the potters, so soft so near to the movement of the wheel and near to the essence of throwing the clay on the wheel...

Electric wheels take away all the beauty that we had the chance to watch on this video. Just beautiful as dneBinder1 said, just beautiful, thank you for sharing it with us...

[dneBinderl]

just beaultiful!

[coldimar1]

what does he do when he puts that stick on it

[majaandmaja]

Indescribably

[drumshaper]

this is such an inspiration to us infant potters

[000789sasha]

fantastic many thanks

[rockstarjulian]

This is remarkable! What kind of wheel is that? A big round rock on a bearing? That's pretty cool, he pushes it with a stick.

[nisenuthead]

so THATS what that is.. cool

[NichinaLou]

this is a te rokuro handwheel. Here's a vid of an even bigger version! vid code: v=DgDJAa0wuKg

[marji1919]

It is so good to see Shoji Hamada pot! I had seen this movie years ago and it is wonderful.

[CARPENTERPOTTERY]

good eye candy for the local potter.

[sencersari]

R.I.P Mr Hamada

[clayartiz]

Excellent archival footage of Hamada. Would you be willing to share that file? Thank you for posting.

[zegurat]

This is great, nice to see the master at work, so clear too. I also liked the Michael Cardew. Thank you.

[caieros]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting!

[ClayThrower]

I've never seen Hamada at work, just still pictures. Thanks for this. Where did you find it?

[samkellystudio]

on an old vhs tape, there is also some of Michael Cardew but it may not be watchable, ill try

[GindaUP]

That would be cool too. I wondered how Hamada uses the stick wheel. How did you take vhs and get it to here? Farm it out?

[samkellystudio]

InterVideo WinDvd to capture from tape to computer and convert to DVD. Intervideo CopyDVD5 to convert to avi and the upload

[GindaUP]

Oh, OK I have an old vhs of myself giving a trench kiln workshop out side and the wind is a problem. Is it possible to clean that out along the way by separating the sound into tracks? I don't know much bout electronics, just clay. Much of my kiln is based on "Pioneer Pottery".

[Marihani]

Excellent. Thanks so much for posting this!