Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty ([New] edition)

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 practical.

Soetsu Yanagi is often'