The traditional beauty of Korea Yanagi was found to be positioned as a universal value over the East and West. And Yanagi argues that they should have saved it from the universal values he believed there was only ever the beauty of Korea to the West. This issue is related with the background of the times agreed to compress the modernization of Western modernization of Japan. Japan was therefore not in the same period in modern thinking and modern anti-Western, this is the modern Japanese people had to accept the modern recognition of a double value. In particular, William Morris tried to follow the principles of reform of the crafts of the medieval guilds had to recapture the beauty of handicrafts. Arts and social reform context advocate a return to the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution took place as a reaction like this Western concept of modernization in Japan was regarded as the compression remains ignored. In other words, behavior and non modern Western behavior in modern Japan it is one accepted. This point when discussing the identity of modern Japan is also therefore an important issue.