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"On January 10 1926, Yanagi Sōetsu and the potters Hamada Shōji and Kawai
Kanjirō sat talking excitedly late into the night at a temple on Mt Kōya, in
Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture.
They were debating how best to honour the beauty of simple, everyday Japanese
crafts. Out of that conversation came a new word,
mingei, and a plan to found
The Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo. Later, Yanagi would describe what
emerged that night as “a new standard of beauty”.
A century on, Yanagi’s ideas feel strikingly relevant. His message was simple:
beautiful things need not be rare or expensive – they can be well-designed
objects that we use every day.
In an age of fast fashion, disposable products and growing concerns about
waste, his approach offers an important reminder to think about the objects we
choose to have around us."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
