Shoji Hamada Video

 Shoji Hamada Video- I found it interesting that Shoji Hamada had so many people working with him on the pots. I also thought it was funny how he would let his grandchildren paint his pots that were worth $5,000. The workers glaze Hamadas bowls and then give them to him to design. All of Hamada's materials used were natural. He would use wood ash, mashico rock, and rice husk ash are a few of the materials he would use to make glazes. He had many of his own design techniques such as the wax off resist technique that would make a design after the glaze was poured over it. My favorite part of the video was how they fired the pots in the kiln. They would put hundreds of pieces in at a time and they had to brick up the holes of the kiln when it was full. They would then put wet sand over the brick to keep the heat in. Hamada would give the Buddhist offering of sake and salt to the gods for good luck before he fired the kiln. There was a lot of hard work that went into making beautiful art.