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| Nihon Mingeikan 日本民芸館 Tokyo  Located in Tokyo, the Mingeikan Museum is housed in a beautiful traditional Japanese building completed in 1936. Founded in the same year, the Mingeikan has over 17,000 items in its collection made by anonymous crafts people mainly from Japan, but also from China, Korea, England, Africa, and elsewhere. Yanagi Soetsu Muneyoshi 柳 宗悦 (1889-1961), the first director and founder of the Museum, coined the term Mingei (folk art) in 1926 to refer to common crafts that had been brushed aside by the industrial revolution. Yanagi and his lifelong companions, the potters Bernard Leach, Hamada Shoji, and Kawai Kanjiro, sought to counteract the desire for cheap mass-produced products by pointing to the works of ordinary crafts people that spoke to the spiritual and practical needs of life. The Mingei Movement is responsible for keeping alive many traditions. Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961; also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi) is the founder of The Japan Folk Crafts Museum. Yanagi opened the doors of the Tokyo-based museum in October 1936, but the nationwide Mingei (Folk Crafts) Movement was launched much earlier, on January 10, 1926, to rescue the common crafts that had been brushed aside and overlooked by the industrial revolution. The term "Mingei" was coined at that time by Yanagi along with potters Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) and Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966). They, especially Yanagi, went around Japan and rescued the lowly pots and unappreciated crockery used by commoners during the Edo Period (1603 - 1867) and Meiji Period (1868 to 1912). In his book The Unknown Craftsman, Yanagi writes: "On reflection, one must conclude that in bringing cheap and useful goods to the average household, industrialism has been a service to mankind -- but at the cost of the heart, of warmth, friendliness and beauty. By contrast, articles well made by hand, though expensive, can be used in homes for generations, and thus considered, they are not expensive after all." source : www.mingeikan.or.jp ....................................................................... . Yanagi Sōetsu, Mokujiki and Enku 木食 円空 . - Essay And Mokujiki’s smile revealed true beauty to Yanagi Sōetsu François Macé ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: - quote - The Korean roots beneath Japan's folk art movement The folk craft movement in Japan owes a great debt to Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), who coined the term “mingei” (“folk crafts”) in 1925. Yanagi pioneered the notion that Japan’s vernacular crafts had their own intrinsic artistic worth, and should be valued, collected and curated. His desire to share an appreciation of these simple objects with the public grew from an admiration for the Korean craft tradition and it became his mission to foster opportunities for the public to rediscover Japanese and other Asian traditional crafts firsthand. Thanks in large part to Yanagi’s efforts, the mingei aesthetic was born, which led to a growing appreciation of folk crafts. Yet, despite this, the appeal of such crafts in Japan was not immediate. Critics decried the inaugural collection of Yanagi’s Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Mingeikan), which he founded in 1936, as not being genuine art. Undeterred, however, Yanagi spent his lifetime collecting Asian folk crafts, continuing to champion the Mingei movement along with his friends and colleagues Shoji Hamada (1894-1978), the second director of the museum, and Kanjiro Kawai (1890-1966). “The Beauty of Korean Crafts” commemorates the 80th anniversary of the museum’s founding with a collection of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) Korean crafts. The painstaking steps taken in organizing the exhibition, which celebrates the full spectrum of the folk arts and crafts of Korea, involved bringing to Japan three Korean cultural property and furniture restoration specialists, all trained in traditional joinery and construction techniques. ..... When Yanagi was 25, he received a Korean porcelain jar from a friend who was working as a school teacher in Korea. The present marked the beginning of Yanagi’s love affair with crafts, and in 1916 he started taking numerous trips to Korea to study and collect Korean folk crafts. Yanagi’s passion for Joseon handicrafts and folk art extended to stoneware, which was carved out of blocks of high-quality pagodite. Craftsmen used ash and smoke to burnish these stone teapots, cooking vessels and braziers that were highly prized for their durability and strikingly rich jet-black color. It is easy to imagine the pleasure owners must have felt when using the kinds of pots on display, which were originally for heating liquor containing dried fruits. - source : Japan Times - ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: my Introduction Japan Folk Craft Museum, Tokyo A lot of omamori use folk craft items. I will try and introduce most of them here. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: External LINKS Mingei Japan We are located in New York City and have been wholesaling unique Japanese craft items for over twenty years, showing our merchandise at the New York International Gift Show at the Javits Center twice a year. Most of our item is hand made in Japan. We visited personaly craft artist in all over in japan. and buy things we loved. such like paper, stationery, textile, kimono, chames, toy, gift items. I hope you will enjoy refinement industrial japanese artworks. source : web.me.com/mingeijapan . . . . . Miyagemon みやげもん Introducing more than 180 regional souvenirs. source : magazineworld.jp . . . . . Arts & Crafts: Japan 1926 - 1945 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Mikuniso, Mikunisō 三國荘 Mikuni So (Mikuni Villa) by Yanagi Sōetsu - source : www.vam.ac.uk/content :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::  民芸館に田の神おどけ花明り mingeikan ni ta no kami odoke hana akari at the Folk Art Museum a funny God of the Rice Fields - shining cherry blossoms Kagiwada Yuuko 鍵和田ゆう子 Kagiwada Yuko (1932 - ) . Ta no Kami 田の神さま God of the Rice Fields . .............................................................................................................................................. 冬牡丹格子戸暗き民芸館 fuyu botan kooshido kuraki mingeikan winter peonies - the dark lattice door of the Folk Art Museum Endoo Hiroshi 遠藤比呂志 Endo Hiroshi .............................................................................................................................................. 民芸館蔵窓ちさき蕗の雨 mingeikan kura mado chisaki fuki no ame the small windows of the Folk Art Museum storehouse - rain on the butterbur Arai Yuuji 新井悠二 Arai Yuji . WKD : fuki no too 蕗 butterbur . .............................................................................................................................................. 竹婦人民芸店に古りにけり chiku fujin mingei ten ni furi ni keri this bamboo wife gets older at the store for folk art . . . Hoshina Hoshiroo 保科星朗 Hoshina Hoshiro . WKD : chiku fujin ちくふじん 竹婦人 "bamboo lady" . kigo for summer .............................................................................................................................................. 民芸店窓ごとに壺鰯雲 中戸川朝人 芽柳や木橋の架かる民芸店 下山宏子 氷柱太しアイヌ民芸ひさぐ店 古賀まり子 |
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