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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty - Yanagi, Soetsu, and Leach, Bernard (Adapted by)
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craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciation for objects born, not made.' Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear. The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and ...

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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty 2013, Kodansha International

ISBN-13: 9781568365206

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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty 1990, Kodansha

ISBN-13: 9780870119484

Revised edition

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