Japanese Folk Crafts Museum

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum (日本民藝館, Nihon Mingeikan) is a museum in Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the hand-crafted art of ordinary people (mingei).

Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo

The museum was established in 1936 by Yanagi Sōetsu, the founder of the mingei movement; Hamada Shōji succeeded him as its director.[1][2] Yanagi and Hamada decided upon its foundation after their 1929 visit to the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm.[3]

The museum is housed in a replica of a farmhouse building common to parts of Tochigi Prefecture.[4]

See also

References
  1. Haruhara, Yoko (April 16, 2010). "Finding beauty in the simplest of things". The Japan Times. The Japan Times, Ltd. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  2. "About the Mingeikan". Japan Folk Crafts Museum. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  3. Kikuchi Yuko (2004). Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural nationalism and Oriental Orientalism. Routledge. pp. 70f. ISBN 9780415297905.
  4. Waley, Paul (1984). Tokyo Now and Then. Tokyo and New York: John Weatherhill Inc. p. 441. ISBN 0-8348-0195-7.



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