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 ...

Shaped by the unique landscape and local culture, Toyama’s crafts are drawing visitors to this authentic destination on the ...

Mingei is “having a moment” right now, Manami Okazaki, the Tokyo-based journalist and curator whose book Japanese Mingei Folk ... Albert Museum, Lo The exhibition’s subtitle, “Art Without ...

The Oshogatsu Family Festival ushered in 2025 on Sunday at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo ... Kodama Taiko and candy sculpting folk art was demonstrated by artist Shan ...

has until now primarily shown permanent installations by artists from Japan and the West. But opening on 31 May, the Naoshima New Museum of Art (NNMA) “shifts the focus to contemporary art from ...