A lot of words in today's post. I need to find more photos to share. Also, I'm going to order "The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty", by Soetsu Yanagi. "Yanagi Sōetsu discovered beauty in everyday ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen. According to Yanagi, utilitarian objects made by the common people are "beyond beauty and ugliness". Below are a few criteria of mingei art and crafts: made by anonymous crafts people produced by hand in quantity inexpensive used by the masses functional in daily life representative of the region in which it was produced. Yanagi's book The Unknown Craftsman has become an influential work since its first release in English in 1972. It examines the Japanese way of viewing and appreciating art and beauty in everyday crafts that include pottery, lacquer, textiles, and woodwork."