The unknown craftsman : a Japanese insight into beauty

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This book challenged the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition and producing the same objects continuously for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even a roughly lacquered Japanese farmer's r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yanagi, Muneyoshi, 1889-1961
Other Authors: Leach, Bernard, 1887-1979
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Tokyo, Palo Alto, Calif.] : Kodansha International, [1972]
Edition:[1st ed.
Subjects:
Yanagi, Soetsu.
Decoration and ornament > Japan.
Design > Japan.
Design > Japon.
Decoration and ornament.
Design.
Japan.
Books.
Table of Contents:
  • In gratitude
  • Yanagi and Leach / Shōji Hamada
  • Plates
  • Introduction / Bernard Leach
  • Towards a standard of beauty
  • Seeing and knowing
  • Pattern
  • The beauty of irregularity
  • The Buddhist idea of beauty
  • Crafts of Okinawa
  • Hakeme
  • The way of tea
  • The Kizaemon tea-bowl
  • The way of craftsmanship
  • The responsibility of the craftsman.

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