Commonplace Beauty

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Commonplace Beauty

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Commonplace Beauty FolkCRafT

Have you ever paused to take a close look at the of their everyday use, and that this beauty adds rich- dishes, vases and textiles that we use so noncha- lives. Yanagi promoted a new aestheticness to our ( 1 1 9 9 6 1 1 2 ), H pwaioer(1d6–92 itevscaoawhwishoeTamthfro 91–hoShettoin)26 been neglected and regarded as of being little sig- lantly in our everyday lives?appreciation of the myriad of everyday articles cre- The philosopher Muneyoshi Yanagi (1889–ated by unknown craftsmen, such as pottery, lac-  periodquer ware and clothing, which until that time had 1989) espoused the idea that there is beauty in nificance. He termed this unpretentious beauty “the the objects we use everyday. Indeed, he believed beauty of use,” and working with like-minded fel- that these have inherent beauty, precisely becausedubbed everyday articles made by crafts-lows, he 24