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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...
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    developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters...
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    and the characterization of Korean art and culture as "sorrowful" in Yanagi Sōetsu's theory of the "beauty of sorrow". The idea that han is a specifically...
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    elements of traditional Japanese crafts. Yanagi was born in 1915 in Tokyo, Japan. His father is Yanagi Sōetsu, founder of the Japanese folk crafts mingei...
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  • imperfection, and silence. They are adapted from the concepts authored by Dr. Yanagi Sōetsu (1898–1961), aesthetician and museum curator, published in the Japanese...
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    minbok was deliberately worn without decoration. The Japanese art critic Yanagi Sōetsu wrote in 1922 of the practice: While China and especially Japan are...
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    established in 1936 by Yanagi Sōetsu, the founder of the mingei movement; Hamada Shōji succeeded him as its director. Yanagi and Hamada officially announced...
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    Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Osaka. The Mingei movement spearheaded by Yanagi Sōetsu sought to appreciate folk craft from an aesthetic viewpoint. Ōtsu-e [ja]...
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    dyeing technique. A leading member of the mingei movement founded by Yanagi Sōetsu, Serizawa visited Okinawa several times and learned the Ryūkyū bingata...
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  • Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961). The philosophical pillar of mingei was "hand-crafted art of ordinary people" (民衆的な工芸, minshū-teki-na kōgei). Yanagi Sōetsu...
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  • 2021 Park Chan-wook, 2022 Kang Soo-yeon, 2022 Hai-Kyung Suh, 1980 Yanagi Sōetsu, 1984 Park Chan-wook, 2004 Park Jeong-ja, 2007 Shin Goo, 2010 Go Eun-jung...
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    numerous exhibitions in Gyeongbokgung, ongoing demotion was opposed by Yanagi Sōetsu. In 1926, the government constructed the massive Japanese General Government...
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    formation of the Korean crafts museum in 1924 by Japanese philosopher Yanagi Sōetsu is a strong example of Japanese aesthetes who still appreciated Korean...
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    occupation of Korea. The three founders were the Asakawa Brothers, and Yanagi Sōetsu. The second museum carrying this name established on 8 November 1945...
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  • years a member of the mingei folk craft movement, and was close with Yanagi Sōetsu, founder of the movement, and Serizawa Keisuke, among others, producing...
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    Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, opened its doors in 2021. In Japan, Yanagi Sōetsu, creator of the Mingei movement which promoted folk art from the 1920s...
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    Museum is established at Gyeongbokgung. Founded by Japanese Koreanists Yanagi Sōetsu and the Asakawa brothers, it continues until 1945, after which it was...
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  • of Sōetsu Yanagi, who is known as the father of the Mingei (Folk Craft) Movement, and the son of Sou Yanagi, the second-generation head of the Yanagi Dyeing...
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    experimented on glazes using various minerals. They were acquainted by Yanagi Sōetsu and Tomimoto Kenkichi while visiting potteries and exhibitions. Hamada...
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    developed, starting in the late 1920s and 1930s. Its founding father was Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961). He rescued lowly pots used by commoners in the Edo and...
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    at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1935, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), father of the mingei (folk art) movement, saw Munakata's...
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    and attended meetings along with Mushanokōji Saneatsu, Shiga Naoya, Yanagi Sōetsu and others from the "Shirakaba-Group", who were trying to introduce...
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    contributions to the preservation and studies of Japanese folklore. Yanagi Sōetsu initiated the mingei (folk craft) movement, and his contributions made...
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    House of Peers. 3rd son - Yanago Soetsu (柳宗悦), art critics, pioneer of Japan's folk art movement. Grand son - Yanagi Sori (柳宗理), product designer....
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  • who were interested in Korean culture: the Asakawa Brothers and Yanagi Sōetsu. Yanagi met Asakawa Takumi on his first trip to Korea. The two resolved...
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    treated Koreans extremely poorly. Japanese Koreanist and art historian Yanagi Sōetsu's sympathy towards Korea reportedly increased after the protests. He...
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    included Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885-1976), Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), Satomi Ton (1888-1983), Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) and...
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    this early work and, thanks in large part to a chance encounter with Yanagi Soetsu and Hamada Shoji, turned instead to natural glazes, to nature, or "to...
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    is now part of Abiko, Chiba in 1916, together with Shiga Naoya and Yanagi Sōetsu. In 1918, Mushanokōji took the next step in the development of his philosophy...
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    the victims of the Mudan Incident of 1871. Torii Ryūzō (1870–1953) Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961) Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962) Japan portal Biography portal...
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