Soetsu Yanagi : selected essays on Japanese folk crafts / Soetsu Yanagi ; with the cooperation of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum ; translated by Michael Brase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yanagi, Muneyoshi, 1889-1961, author.

Contributor:

Brase, Michael, translator.

Nihon Mingeikan.

Nihon Mingeikan

Series:

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

Japan library

Standardized Title:

Selections. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Yanagi, Muneyoshi, 1889-1961.

Yanagi, Muneyoshi, 1889-1961--Translations into English.

Yanagi, Muneyoshi.

Folk art--Japan.

Folk art.

Japan.

Decorative arts--Japan.

Decorative arts.

Physical Description:

245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Selected essays on Japanese folk crafts

Colophon title : (Eibunban) Yanagi Sōetsu korekushon 2 mono hoka shoshu

Colophon title : (英文版) 『柳宗悦コレクション2 もの』他所収

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the original Japanese into English.

Summary:

"The common utilitarian objects depicted in this book were considered aesthetically insignificant until the appearance of Soetsu Yanagi. It was Yanagi who discovered the beauty that could only be produced by simple, humble craftsmen repeatedly and unselfconsciously working on the same objects day after day. From this quotidian world emerged a distinctive beauty-wholesome, free, and devoid of self-awareness. To bring these crafts to the notice of the world, Yanagi established the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in 1936, from whose collection the objects illustrated herein have been chosen for inclusion by the publisher. In the essays, Yanagi expounds his philosophy of folk crafts and highlights particular pieces. Altogether, the book constitutes a penetrating insight into the world of Japanese handicrafts"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Textiles

Ceramics

Wood and lacquer

Metal

Sculpture

Pictorial art

What is folk craft?

The beauty of miscellaneous things

A painted Karatsu as food for thought

What is pattern?

Okinawa's Bashofu

The beauty of Kasuri

The characteristics of Kogin

The Japanese perspective

The story behind the discovery of Mokujiki

Woodblock prints

Otsu-e

Handicrafts and sesshu

Washi

Seeing and knowing

A letter to my Korean friends

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum.

Notes:

The essays appearing in this book were selected from Yanagi Soetsu korekushon 2: mono (Chikuma Shobo; chapters 2-7, 10-14) and Mingei yonju-nen (Iwanami Shoten; chapters 1,8,9,15,16)--verso of the title page.

ISBN:

9784916055750

4916055756

OCLC:

981919872