Rare Japanese Stool by Soetsu Yanagi

Name: Rare Japanese Stool by Soetsu Yanagi
Brand: Sori Yanagi
Price: 5739.09 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This stool was made for the In 1936, the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum. Made of Japanese cherry wood and seagrass. Today, you can still see the original benches made for this museum. Yanagi Soetsu (1889 – 1961), also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi, was a Japanese art critic, philosopher, and founder of the mingei (folk craft) movement in Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s. His son, Sori Yanagi, was a renowned industrial designer. In 1916, Yanagi made his first trip to Korea out of curiosity about Korean crafts. The trip led to the establishment of the Korean Folk Crafts Museum in 1924 and the coining of the term mingei by Yanagi, potters Hamada Shoji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjiro (1890–1966). His theory of the "beauty of sorrow" in Korean art influenced the development of the Korean idea of han. Following the March First Movement, an independence movement that ended with the death of about 7,000 Koreans at the hands of the Japanese police and military, Yanagi wrote articles in 1919 and 1920, expressing sympathy for the Korean people and appreciation for Korean art. In 1926, the Folk Art Movement was formally declared by Yanagi. He rescued lowly pots used by commoners in the Edo and Meiji periods that were disappearing in rapidly urbanizing Japan. In 1936, the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum (Nihon Mingeikan) was established.

Creator:

Sori Yanagi (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 13.39 in (34 cm)Width: 16.15 in (41 cm)Depth: 13.39 in (34 cm)Seat Height: 13.19 in (33.5 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Cherry,Seagrass

Place of Origin:

Japan

Period:

1930-1939