Description: Check out our store under the "Asian Collectibles & Art" category for other similar vintage items and save on shipping! Estate sale find, vintage original copy of Folk-Crafts in Japan by Soetsu Yanagi translated by Shigeyoshi Sakabe. Stamped with Occupied Japan at the rear. Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi, was a Japanese art critic, philosopher and founder of the mingei (folk craft) movement in Japan in the late 1920's and 1930's. In 1916, Yanagi made his first trip to Korea out of curiosity about Korean crafts. The trip led to the establishment of the Korean Folk Crafts Museum in 1924 and the coining of the term mingei by Yanagi, potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966). In 1926, the Folk Art Movement was formally declared and Yanagi rescued lowly pots used by commoners in the Edo and Meiji periods that were disappearing in rapidly urbanizing Japan. In 1936, the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingeikan) was established. The philosophical pillar of mingei is "hand-crafted art of ordinary people" and finding beauty in everyday ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen. According to Yanagi, utilitarian objects made by the common people are "beyond beauty and ugliness". Below are a few criteria of mingei art and crafts:Made by anonymous crafts peopleProduced by hand in quantityInexpensiveUsed by the massesFunctional in daily lifeRepresentative of the region in which it was producedIn 1984, Yanagi was posthumously awarded the Bogwan Order of Cultural Merit, the first to be awarded to a non-Korean. Softcover, illustrated with tipped in plated, 55 pages, 1936, Language: English, Product Dimensions: roughly 7.2" X 10.25", approximate shipping weight: 14 ounces. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The booklet is in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition with issues, chipped and worn spine, signs of wear, sunning, age toning, soiling, creases, some writing, no odors. Stamped with Occupied Japan at the rear. Please see images. (C1A8-002)
Price: 34.81 USD
Location: Bakersfield, California
End Time: 2025-02-14T18:00:00.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD
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Japanese Folk Art: Yanagi Sōetsu
Region of Origin: Japan
Age: 1900-1940
Primary Material: Paper
Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
Color: Brown
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