text: The Ohara Tokikan pottery hall is devoted to the work of modern pottery masters Kanjiro Kawai , Shoji Hamada , and Kenkichi Tomimoto , as well as their much admired friend , Bernard Leach , the influential British potter credited with popularizing Japanese rustic ceramic styles and techniques abroad .
  
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  Bernard Leach made Japanese pottery styles and techniques popular in other countries .