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*''Japanese'': 柳宗悦 ''(Yanagi Souetsu)''

*''Japanese'': 柳宗悦 ''(Yanagi Souetsu)''

Yanagi Sôetsu, also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi<ref>Muneyoshi and Sôetsu are alternate readings for the same [[kanji]]; Muneyoshi is the more official of his names, but as a writer and cultural figure, he is better known by the name Sôetsu.</ref>, is widely regarded as the father of the ''[[mingei]]'' (folk arts) movement of the 1910s-40s, which sought to promote appreciation of craft, of the handmade, of the local, rural, anonymous craftsman and his work, the product of a long tradition. The movement was a reaction to rapid modernization & Westernization in Japan, and held up Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, and the Ainu as peoples/places where a stronger sense of the traditional, and the beauty of the handmade, which had been lost in Japan, could be found.

Yanagi Sôetsu, also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi<ref>Muneyoshi and Sôetsu are alternate readings for the same [[kanji]]; Muneyoshi is the more official of his names, but as a writer and cultural figure, he is better known by the name Sôetsu.</ref>, is widely regarded as the father of the ''[[mingei]]'' (folk arts) movement of the 1910s-40s, which sought to promote appreciation of craft, of the handmade, of the local, rural, anonymous craftsman and his work, the product of a long tradition. The movement was a reaction to rapid modernization & Westernization in Japan, and held up [[Okinawa]], [[Taiwan]], [[Colonial Korea|Korea]], and the [[Ainu]] as peoples/places where a stronger sense of the traditional, and the beauty of the handmade, which had been lost in Japan, could be found.

==Early Life==

==Early Life==

Yanagi attended the elite [[Gakushuin|Gakushûin]] Peers' School and [[Tokyo Imperial University]].

Yanagi attended the elite [[Gakushuin|Gakushûin]] Peers' School and [[Tokyo Imperial University]].

''More Expansion to Come''

When visiting Okinawa, he compared the skyline and architecture of the royal capital of [[Shuri]], and the main commercial & port town of [[Naha]], to that of [[Heijo-kyo|Heijô-kyô]] ([[Nara]]) in the Tenpyô period ([[729]]-[[765]]), i.e. at its height; in other words, he saw in Okinawa a classical, ancient, aesthetic greatness that modern Japan had long-since moved past, and lost.<ref>Kikuchi, 143.</ref>

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