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A Few of His Favorite Things: Folk Art that Inspired the Modern Designs of Sori Yanagi |
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| Susan Rogers Chikuba |
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| The ubiquitous Butterfly Stool, the stackable Elephant Stool. Lighting, bridges, station benches, bus stop shelters, cult-status kitchen goods and flatware and even Olympic flame holders -- the prolific output of industrial designer Sori Yanagi (1915-2011) over his six-decade career is such that you have no doubt seen, if you don't already own or covet, works by his hand. more... |
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Meditating on Meditation: Komazawa University's Museum of Zen Culture and History |
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| Michael Pronko |
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| Many college campuses house old buildings, but few if any have a Zen Museum. At the very center of Komazawa University's campus in Setagaya, Tokyo sits a stolid gem of a building that is home to the fascinating Museum of Zen Culture and History. Komazawa University was a seminary for monks of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism for three centuries from 1592 until it became a modern university in 1882. more... |
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| What do Yukio Mishima and a late-Meiji-era copper refinery have in common? I sure don't know either, but artist Yukinori Yanagi has attempted to establish what seems like a rather tenuous connection between the two in his massive installation on the little island of Inujima, just off the Setouchi coast of the Seto Inland Sea in Okayama Prefecture. more... |
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