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Japanese pottery
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Japanese pottery and porcelain.
Taishō period
Japanese pottery strongly influenced British studio potterBernard Leach (1887–1979), who is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". He lived in Japan from 1909 to 1920 during the Taishō period and became the leading western interpreter of Japanese pottery and in turn influenced a number of artists abroad.