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Frame：D.59cm × D.72.5cm
Fumaretsumo
Hana wo Tamukuya
Kusa no michi
This path was created by trampling grass.
We offer flowers and pray for safety.
This road is a big road, so let's go forward without hesitation.
Muneyoshi Yanagi
1889-1961
Advocate of the Mingei (folk art) movement. Also known as the father of folk art. Born in Tokyo. While a student at Tokyo Imperial University, he joined the Shirakaba-ha coterie magazine group. Together with Kenkichi Tomimoto, Shoji Hamada, and Kanjiro Kawai, he focused on folk crafts for daily life, advocating "beauty of use" and founding the Mingei movement. In 1936, he established the Japan Folk Art Museum in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Before the war, he devoted himself to introducing crafts from Hokkaido, Tohoku, Okinawa, Taiwan, and other regions. In 1957, he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit.
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