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Started by five young men, guided by the mingei leaders, and still making unsigned everyday ware by policy.
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Shussai Kiln is a pottery in Shussai, Hikawa-cho (now Izumo), Shimane Prefecture. After the war, five young men from farming villages, second and third sons, started it as a cooperative kiln. It developed under the influence of "mingei movement" figures such as Muneyoshi Yanagi, Kanjiro Kawai, Michitada Funaki, Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach. It still runs as a cooperative kiln today and is a standard-bearer of contemporary "mingei."
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1947 Highlights / collection：Izushi Blue, Guidance of Soetsu Yanagi and Kanjiro Kawai Genre：Crafts and ceramics, Mingei (folk crafts)
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