Soetsu Yanagi, known as first advocator of the Mingei Movement, was born in Tokyo in 1889. He took part in the launch of the magazine 'Shirakaba' in 1910 and actively worked as a central member of the Shirakaba literary school. Then he began to take a deep interest in arts and the philosophy of religion. In 1914, Yanagi encountered ceramics of Joseon Dynasty introduced by Asakawa Noritaka and Takumi brothers. Triggered by this, Yanagi got at ...<閱讀全文>