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Unlike the somewhat abritrary) destruction that we [[crossed out]] make in [[/crossed out]] have made for so long in the West - the Japanese have never recognized the basic [[crossed out]] distinction [[/crossed out]] difference between "Art" or "Fine Arts" 
"High Art" (ptg,  sculpture, architecture & "crafts" or "applied art" "Low Art" (ceramics, metalwork, textiles, woodwork etc.)

In Europe, it was [[crossed out]] not until about [[/crossed out]] from 1921- until its move from Weimar to Dessau in 1925, that the early Bauhaus taught that crafts and art are equal and the same.

Japanese folk art (painting, sculpture, ceramics, furniture, wooden objects, signboards, weaving - paperworks & toys etc.) is produced by anonymous artists for everyday use by ordinary people & may be distinguished by directness, unselfconsciousness, simplicity, naiveté, joy, strength, richness, vitality, sensitive use of inexpensive natural materials, and appropriateness to intended function. The folk artists [[crossed out]] hold the important view that [[/crossed out]] simply senses beauty without