{"id":3744,"date":"2023-06-27T16:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmdf.org\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=3744"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:47:52","slug":"016-mizuguchi-hakaru-hakodate","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/wmdf.org\/en\/artist\/016-mizuguchi-hakaru-hakodate","title":{"rendered":"Mizuguchi Hakaru, Hakodate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"671\" src=\"http:\/\/wmdf.org\/wpms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Asset-016-web_0025_JPN-Mizuguchi-960x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wmdf.org\/wpms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Asset-016-web_0025_JPN-Mizuguchi-960x671.jpg 960w, https:\/\/wmdf.org\/wpms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Asset-016-web_0025_JPN-Mizuguchi-630x441.jpg 630w, https:\/\/wmdf.org\/wpms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Asset-016-web_0025_JPN-Mizuguchi-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wmdf.org\/wpms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Asset-016-web_0025_JPN-Mizuguchi-624x436.jpg 624w, https:\/\/wmdf.org\/wpms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Asset-016-web_0025_JPN-Mizuguchi.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1970s Japan, skyscrapers started emerging in Shinjuku and working in glass caught the interest of a modernising nation. Hakaru Mizuguchi was one of the artists selected in 1981 for one of Japan\u2019s first glasswork exhibitions, called \u201cContemporary Glass \u2013 Australia, Canada, U.S.A. &amp; Japan\u201d. In 1983, he went on to found \u201cThe Glass Studio in Hakodate\u201d, which has become an integral part of the tourist experience among the red-brick warehouses by the bay in Motomachi. He specialises in free-blown glassworks that express a personal warmth not achievable with machines. His decorations of the WMDF Tree have become a regular WMDF feature since 005. More worlds that meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3744","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","artistscat-artists016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}