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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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  • Imperial Japanese Navy officer Yanagi Sōetsu (柳 宗悦, 1889–1961), Japanese philosopher, son of Yanagi Narayoshi (柳 楢悦) Yūrei Yanagi (柳 憂怜, born 1963), Japanese...
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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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  • 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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    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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