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2023

Julian Stair and Shoji Kamoda: The Inevitability of Vessels
Saturday, January 20, 2024 ‒ Sunday, April 7
A Day at Mashiko: Serizawa Keisuke, Traveling Dye Artist
Sunday, October 22, 2023 ‒ Monday, January 8, 2024
Ceramic Artist: Akira Wada
Sunday, July 30, 2023 ‒ Monday, October 9, 2023
Since 1958: The Beginning of Mashiko Studio Pottery
Sunday, April 16, 2023 ‒ Monday, July 17, 2023

2022

In search of a new shape: Molding & Carving
Saturday, December 24, 2022 ‒ Sunday, April 2, 2023
The Spark: Ikeda Iwao
Sunday, October 2, 2022 ‒ Sunday, December 11, 2022
New Collection Exhibition
Tuesday, June 28, 2022 ‒ Sunday, August 7, 2022
Koinuma Michio and his contemporaries
Saturday, April 16, 2022 – Sunday, June 19, 2022

2021

The Fourth Dimension: To the Future of Vessels
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 – Sunday, March 27, 2022
Higeta Tadashi: Achieving New Heights Beyond His Father
Sunday, October 10, 2021 – Monday / National Holiday, January 10, 2022
Kuroda Taizo: 1946-2021
Tuesday, August 31 – Sunday, October 3, 2021
Bernard Leach: His Miraculous Achievements
Sunday, June 13 – Sunday, August 22, 2021

2020

Kamoda Shoji : Gravity and Flight
Sunday, March 7 - Sunday, May 30, 2021
Modern Mashiko Ceramics from Museum Collection
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - Sunday, February 28, 2021
Started it in England:Hamada and Leach, in Two Ways
Sunday, June 28 - Sunday, November 8, 2020
Komori Shinobu, Kawai Kanjiro, and Hamada Shoji: From Researching Ceramics, Each Found His Own Art
Sunday, April 12 - Sunday, June 14, 2020

2019

The Spirit of Japanese Ceramics
Sunday, January 19 - Sunday, March 29, 2020
Clay and Abstraction: When Memories Become Form
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - Monday, January 13, 2020
Shimaoka Tatsuzo : Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of His Birth
Thursday, July 11 - Sunday, October 6, 2019
BIZEN: From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms
Tuesday, May 14 - Sunday, June 30, 2019

2018

Mashiko Museum Collection Featuring Raku Ware and Slipware
Saturday, March 2 - Monday, May 6, 2019
A la Table: Feast of Tableware Made in Mashiko and Kasama
Sunday, December 16, 2018 - Sunday, February 24, 2019
The Lovelyists: In Harmony with Nature
Saturday, October 6 - Sunday, December 9, 2018
Reborn: The Ceramic Art of Nagakura Suiko
Sunday, July 22 - Sunday, September 30, 2018
The 40th Memorial of Shoji Hamada from Tamesaburo Yamamoto Collection
Sunday, April 15 - Monday, July 16, 2018

2017

The Blue Period: Modern Japanese Celadon
Saturday, January 20 - Sunday, April 8, 2018
Takita Koichi - The Master of Mingei Porcelain
Sunday, October 8, 2017 – Sunday, January 14, 2018
Funaki Shizuho+Hamada Yoshio: What the Glass of Vessels Tells Us
Sunday, July 23 – Sunday, October 1, 2017
Hamada Shoji: Motifs and Patterns
Saturday, April 15, 2017 – Monday (national holiday), July 17, 2017

2016

Modern Mashiko Ceramics: Selection from the Museum's Collection
Sunday, February 5, 2017 – Sunday, April 9, 2017
Inspired by Mairet - Higeta Tadashi and Ethel Mairet
Sunday, October 30, 2016 – Sunday, January 29, 2017
On the Wind from St.Ives - Japanese Potters Who Studied at the Leach Pottery
Saturday, July 16, 2016 – Sunday, October 23, 2016
Yoshihiko Yoshida : The Potter between Mashiko and Mino
Sunday, April 17 – Sunday, July 10, 2016

2015

Shoji Kamoda and Modern Ceramics in Mashiko
Saturday, January 23 – Sunday, April 10, 2016
Mineo Okabe Exhibition
Sunday, October 4, 2015 – Sunday, January 17, 2016
Shoji Hamada's Journey to the West -Museum's Collection of Overseas Ceramics-
Saturday, July 18 – Sunday, September 27, 2015
New Collection 2015:The Works by Modern Mashiko Potters
Saturday, April 4 – Sunday, July 12, 2015

2014

Vessels: The Spirit of Modern British Ceramics
Saturday, November 22, 2014 - Sunday, March 29, 2015
77 Teabowls by Shoji Hamada
Commemorating 120th Anniversary of the Potter's Birth
Featuring the Horio Mikio Collection from The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka

Sunday, September 14 - Sunday November 11, 2014
展開するチカラ
Saturday, July 12 - Sunday September 7, 2014
Ichiro Kimura : A Modernist in Mashiko
Saturday, April 5 - Sunday, July 6, 2014

2013

The Form of Clay
Sunday, December 8, 2013 - Sunday, March 30, 2014
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POTTERS INSPIRED BY BERNARD LEACH
COMMEMORATING THE MASHIKO - ST.IVES FRIENDSHIP AGREEMENT
Sunday, September 15 - Thursday, November 28, 2013
新収蔵品を中心に コレクション展
Saturday, August 3 - Wednesday, September 4, 2013
益子町名誉町民章受章記念 島岡達三展
東京工業大学博物館所蔵 中澤コレクション
Sunday, April 21 - Sunday, July 21, 2013

2012

セント・アイヴス友好都市締結記念特集展示
リーチ工房と仲間たち
Friday, December 14, 2012 - Sunday, April 14, 2013
HAMADA SHOJI'S PERSPECTIVE ON MODERNITY
Saturday, September 15 - Sunday, December 2, 2012
工芸館巡回展 東京国立近代美術館コレクション
茶事にまつわる うつわ ―陶を中心に―
Sunday, July 1 - Sunday, September 2, 2012

2011

HAMADA SHOJI STYLE
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - Sunday, January 29, 2012
White Period
Sunday, July 31 - Sunday, September 25, 2011

2010

新収蔵品展
Wednesday, MArch 30 - Sunday, July 24, 2011
A day in the life of VANGUARD COURT
Saturday, January 15 - Sunday, March 27, 2011(※ Canceled on Friday, March 11)
JASON WASON
Sunday, October 3, 2010 - Monday (national holiday), January 10, 2011
Lucie Rie A Retrospective
Saturday, August 7 - Sunday, September 26, 2010
Warren Mackenzie and some Midwestern American Potters
Sunday, May 16 - Wednesday, July 28, 2010

2009

益子の香り
Thursday, March 4 - Sunday, May 9, 2010
Do you know Yoshimichi Goda?
Saturday, December 5, 2009 - Sunday, February 28, 2010
The Real Kawai Kanjiro
Saturday, September 19 - Sunday, November 29, 2009
第7回 益子陶芸展受賞者展
Sunday, August 9 - Sunday, September 13, 2009
館蔵品から
Saturday, June 20 - Sunday, August 2, 2009
HAMADA SHINSAKU - Work of the Orthodox Hamada School
Sunday, March 29 - Sunday, June 14, 2009