The unknown craftsman A Japanese insight into beauty
Book - 1989
Sōetsu Yanagi is often mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. Bernard Leach, a renowned British potter, was a friend of Mr. Yanagi's for fifty years.
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- Published
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Tokyo ; New York :
Kodansha International
1989.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Rev. ed
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9784770014481
9780870119484
- 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.