Use for genre of Japanese folk art conforming to the principle of the inseparability of beauty and high utility in the everyday, practical objects of the common people; traditional craft methods without conscious aesthetic intent govern the production of the objects of the genre; distinguish from the utilitarian goods of the aristocracy, which consciously strove for aesthetic effect, and from the everyday utilitarian products of modern industrialization; genre defined and term used since 1920s.
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