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Yanagi Soetsu

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Also Known As Yanagi Muneyoshi

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General Reference

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Yanagi Soetsu." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/figures/yanagi-soetsu.

APA Style

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Yanagi Soetsu. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/figures/yanagi-soetsu

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-yanagi-soetsu,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Yanagi Soetsu},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-home.interactiveatlas.org/figures/yanagi-soetsu},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Birth Year

1889 1

Death Year

1961 1

Nationality

Japanese 1

Defining Contribution

Founded the mingei folk craft movement and the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (1936) 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Developed

Mingei

Source Mingei (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Yanagi Soetsu (Wikipedia)

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