Soetsu Yanagi

Praise for The Beauty of Everyday Things

It would not be entirely amiss to describe Yanagi's position in Japan as comparable to that of Ruskin and Morris in England ... He left as a legacy an aesthetic and religious creed of vital importance to men and wom ...

Bernard Leach

What impresses me most in Yanagi is the strength of his vision, his direct eye for beauty. His was an immediate and intuitive faculty of an extraordinary kind

Shoji Hamada

Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial

Edmund de Waal

It would not be entirely amiss to describe Yanagi's position in Japan as comparable to that of Ruskin and Morris in England ... He left as a legacy an aesthetic and religious creed of vital importance to men and wom ...

Bernard Leach

What impresses me most in Yanagi is the strength of his vision, his direct eye for beauty. His was an immediate and intuitive faculty of an extraordinary kind

Shoji Hamada

Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial

Edmund de Waal

It would not be entirely amiss to describe Yanagi's position in Japan as comparable to that of Ruskin and Morris in England ... He left as a legacy an aesthetic and religious creed of vital importance to men and wom ...

Bernard Leach

What impresses me most in Yanagi is the strength of his vision, his direct eye for beauty. His was an immediate and intuitive faculty of an extraordinary kind

Shoji Hamada

Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial

Edmund de Waal