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Japanese aesthetics and folk craft, as explained by the Japanese philosopher and critic Yanagi Muneyoshi (1889-1961), in 1933. The father of the mingei movement. 
On the unconscious nature of the craftsman, and the spontaneous appearance of beauty in his work: for a craft properly applied to material properly selected can not fail to become beautiful. Texts from 1933, 1926.
Yanagi Muneyoshi in 1926 on the relationship between craft and materials, and at the same time defining the vernacular: if one were to change crafts to urbanism and architecture, the passage would perfectly describe good villages, towns, and cities.
“In the near future, when everything is made by machine, people will marvel that the human hand was capable of such astonishing feats.”
— Yanagi Muneyoshi, 1926
— Yanagi Muneyoshi, 1926
