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かわかんろう 河井寛次郎
Full name
1. Kawai Kanjirou
Wikipedia definition
2. Kawai KanjirōKawai Kanjirō was a Japanese potter and a key figure in mingei and studio pottery movements, which included his friends Bernard Leach, Shōji Hamada and Kenkichi Tomimoto. Becoming interested in pottery as a child by watching a nearby farmer who made pottery in his spare time, Kawai-san knew by the age of 16 that he wanted to become a potter. Kanjirō graduated from the Tokyo Higher Polytechnical School in 1914 and worked briefly at the Kyoto Research Institute for Ceramics.
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