I checked this book out from the Japan House LA library, where they listed a 2012 publication date. It wasn't until I added the book to Bookwyrm this morning that I saw it was actually written in 1953. Had I known the book's publication date, I likely wouldn't have started reading it, but since I'm 2/3 of the way through it now, I'm going to go ahead and finish. The book does contain some good factual information in it, if (and it's a large "if") one can overlook the author's antiquated notions (by current standards) of the concepts of "folk art" and "craft."