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Hugo Munsterberg: The folk arts of Japan. (1958, C.E. Tuttle Co.) 3 stars

Once I learned the actual due date of this book (1953), a lot of things about it made much more sense. I was able to extract quite a bit of factual data from the book, while needing at all times to mentally filter out Munsterberg's antiquated ideas about craft and folk art. Hopefully someone has written a newer book on this subject that (A) includes developments in Japanese folk art since the time of Munsterberg's work and (B) is based on more current ideas of the relationship between craft and art.