Philosopher and critic who founded the mingei movement, teaching that the unsigned everyday objects of ordinary craftspeople hold a beauty fine art cannot reach. He coined the word mingei with the potters Hamada and Kawai, opened the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo in 1936, and his essays reached the West as The Unknown Craftsman. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionFounded the mingei folk craft movement and the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (1936) 1 Connections
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Yanagi Sōetsu (Japanese: 柳 宗悦; March 21, 1889 – May 3, 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 1920s and 1930s.
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