Historical Timeline

Born in Kai Province (present Yamanashi)

Ordained at Zenkō-ji, takes Buddhist name Gyōdō

First pilgrimage period begins: Kantō, Oga Peninsula

Second period: Hokkaidō, Sado Island

Third period (longest): Chūbu, Kinki, Chūgoku, Shikoku ×3, Kyūshū

Resident at Hyūga Kokubunji for nine years (Kyūshū)

Fourth period: Niigata and northern provinces

Vow serial transitions from 千体之内 to 二千躰之内 at Kyōan-ji

Surviving at age 90

Dies in Niigata, age 92

Hase Hōshū publishes first modern biography

Yanagi Sōetsu discovers Mokujiki statues at Kyōan-ji (11 June, Taishō 13)

Yanagi publishes photo book and kenkyū; coins koyūna nihon no bi in reference to Mokujiki

Yanagi publishes waka anthology

Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum) founded, Tokyo

Yanagi's English essay in Monumenta Nipponica

Yanagi Sōetsu dies

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum retrospective

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum exhibition

Shōtō Museum exhibition; Mingeikan 100th anniversary events