One of the most important art, design and philosophical movements to come out of Japan is now nearly a hundred years old. It's called Mingei, or folk crafts. It reflects a reaction to modernity and ...
In 1914, a Japanese art collector named Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961) received a fateful gift: a white porcelain jar of uncertain date, made by an unknown craftsman in Korea. For Yanagi, the jar’s elegant ...