- Names
- 柳宗理
- YANAGI Sōri (index name)
- Yanagi Sōri (display name)
- 柳宗理 (Japanese display name)
- やなぎ そうり (transliterated hiragana)
- やなぎ むねみち
- Yanagi Munemichi
- Date of birth
- 1915-06-29
- Birth place
- Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture
- Date of death
- 2011-12-25
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Design
- 2007
- Yanagi Sōri: Seikatsu no naka no dezain (Sori Yanagi: Design in Everyday Life), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2007.
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Yanagi Sōri.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/204378.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「柳宗理」『日本美術年鑑』平成24年版(444頁)工業デザイナーで、文化功労者の柳宗理は、12月25日、肺炎のため死去した。享年96。 1915(大正4)年6月29日、民芸運動の創始者の柳宗悦と声楽家の兼子の第一子として東京市原宿に生まれた。本名は宗理(むねみち)。1935(昭和10)年東京美術学校洋画科に入学、南薫造教室に所属するが、バウハウスで学んだ水谷武彦の講義を聞き、また、ル・コルビュジエの思想に感銘を受けデザイナーを志す。40年社団法人...
Wikipedia
Sōri Yanagi (柳 宗理, Yanagi Sōri, 1915–2011) was a Japanese industrial designer. He played a role in Japanese modern design developed after World War II to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy. He is both a representative of the wholly Japanese modern designer and a full-blown modernist who merged simplicity and practicality with elements of traditional Japanese crafts.
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- 2026-07-21