Prompted by Heidegger\u27s search for great art in the modern times, this paper looks into crafts as answering the philosopher\u27s frustrated call. Using Soetsu Yanagi\u27s idea of a religion of beauty, which turns to the ordinary as beautiful, it suggests that crafts - carefully made by hand while considering its affinity with nature and the human body that uses it - is a way of being, the way Heidegger described the way of dwelling poetically. Copyright 2012. C & E Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved
