User:Cullen328/Shirayamadani

Shirayamadani was born in Tokyo.

Japonism

He participated in a "Japanese Village" exhibition which was established in Boston in 1883, and which visited several other cities.

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He was already an accomplished painter of porcelainware when he came to the United States. He first worked in Boston for the Fujiyama porcelain decorating workshop when he first met Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, the founder of Rookwood Pottery, in 1886. She hired him to work for her at Rookwood in May, 1887.

His work is in museum collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Mint Museum , the Carnegie Museum of Art , the Cooper Hewitt , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crocker Art Museum.