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Five Cranes is a boutique gallery that focuses on Mingei pottery from Japan. Please visit us at www.
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230 Saw Mill River Road , #539
Millwood, NY
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Five Cranes is a boutique gallery offering select pieces of Mingei (民芸, "folk arts" or "arts of the people") and other styles of Japanese ceramics.
In his 1952 essay "The Buddhist Idea of Beauty," Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), the intellectual father of Mingei, pondered, "Why do we long for beauty? The Buddhists would reply that the world of beauty is our home and that we are born with a love for home. To long for beauty, therefore, is the same as to long for home. ... Regarding a beautiful object, then, is the same as looking at one's own native home; put another way, it is the same as looking at the original condition of man himself. He who buys a beautiful object is in reality buying himself, and he who looks at a beautiful object is seeing in it his primordial self."
Five Cranes Gallery endeavors to offer the kind of pieces that resonate strongly with Soetsu's idea of beauty and are true representatives of the most salient principles of Mingei and other artistic styles.
We focus on the creations of 19th century Mingei predecessors such as Otagaki Rengetsu and highlight gems from the hands of Mingei founders Hamada Shoji, Kawai Kanjiro, and Munakata Shiko, while at the same time exploring the vibrant strands offered by next-generation Mingei potters Shimaoka Tatsuzo, Kawai Takeichi (Kanjiro's nephew), Kawai Toru (Kawai’s grandnephew), Hamada Shinsaku (Shoji's son), Hamada Tomoo (Shoji's grandson), Euan Craig, and others.
