why this Japanese folk craft movement still matters 100 years on
- Written by Penny Bailey, Lecturer in Japanese Studies, The University of Queensland
A thrown tea bowl made by Hamada Shōji.Wikimedia, CC BY-SAOn 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...





