Their strength lies in patience and the ancestral skills they bring to the workbench every day, working in the spirit of ...

In 1936, Yanagi founded the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, or Mingeikan, in Tokyo. He exhibited entire rooms finished with folk arts to show a harmony among the things people use and the spaces they ...

His spine curves along the same arc as the rim. At the Nihon Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum) in Tokyo, visitors find little by way of description or context alongside this artefact or the ...

Daikoku-shaped jizaikake (fixture for adjustable pothook), Edo period, 19th century, Hokuriku region, The Japan Folk Crafts Museum. =Click/tap photo for more images. Mainichi: What is the ...

In 1956, at the age of 57, Motohiko Katano (1899-1975), under the advice of the founder of the mingei (folk arts) movement Soetsu Yanagi, decided to abandon all other artistic expressions to focus ...

Yanagi was a founder and the first director of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, which opened in Tokyo in 1936. Forty-two years later, his philosophy inspired the creation of the Mingei International ...

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 ...

Jar with clouds and bamboo decorations, 17th century, iron-painted porcelain (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum/The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea) A collection of Korean folk ...