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(folk craft) movement in Japan. Adapted and translated by the British potter Bernard Leach Have you found a digital copy
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Before diving into the PDF, one must understand the author. Soetsu Yanagi (1889–1961) was a Japanese art historian, philosopher, and aesthete. He is best known as the founder of the in Japan.
In the 1920s, Yanagi co-founded the . The word Mingei combines min (people) and gei (craft or art). His revolutionary argument was simple yet profound: Objects made by anonymous craftsmen for daily use—a farmer’s bowl, a fisherman’s coat, a woodworker’s plane—possess a beauty that surpasses the deliberate "fine arts" of the elite.