Mashiko Village Pottery
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1986.6.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Leach, Bernard, 1887-1979
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content: Bernard Leach films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent; 800 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documents the traditional process of pottery making as performed and recorded in 1937 at the workshop of Totaro Sakuma in the village of Maskiko, Japan, historically one of the most prolific sites for the production of utilitarian ceramic ware for Tokyo.  Film highlights the work of famed potter Shoji Hamada and Minagawa Masu, an illiterate itinerant teapot painter of great renown who plied her trade among the various kilns in the village.  Film restored by Marty Gross.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Teapots ; Pottery Japan ; Ceramics Japan