The Japanese folk craft movement, built on Yanagi Soetsu's claim that true beauty lives in ordinary objects made anonymously, by hand, in quantity, for daily use. Developed in the mid 1920s with the potters Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro, it gave the world a vocabulary for honoring the unknown craftsman. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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OriginThe word mingei, folk craft, was coined in 1925 by Yanagi Soetsu with Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro 1 FAQs
Who coined the term mingei?
Yanagi Soetsu, with the potters Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro, in 1925.
The word mingei, meaning folk craft, was coined in 1925 by Yanagi Soetsu together with the potters Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro. The movement is built on Yanagi's claim that true beauty lives in ordinary objects made anonymously, by hand, in quantity, for daily use, and it gave the world a vocabulary for honoring the unknown craftsman.
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A nonprofit in San Diego devoted to folk art, craft and design, founded 1974, named for and built around the Japanese mingei (folk craft) idea.
Hamada co-coined the word and was the movement's leading potter
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the phrase that they coined to describe the craftsman's work was mingei (民藝)
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beauty was to be found in ordinary and utilitarian everyday objects made by nameless and unknown craftsmen
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