Monthly Mingei June 1941
Including articles on Latin American crafts, memories of collecting folk implements, farmers handicrafts, straw shoes, Chinese Raku instruments.
The Mingei movement was founded in mid-1920s Japan. Spearheaded by writer, educator, and aesthete Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), the Mingei movement worked to recognise and preserve Japanese folk craft objects and the traditional skills used in making them. Mingei Monthly was published by the Mingei Associaiton between 1939 and 1946. Co-edited by Yanagi Sōetsu it followed the earlier related publications, Shirakaba and Kōgei, also associated with Yanagi.
As the MIngei movement approaches its centenary, “Art Without Heroes: Mingei”, the largest ever exhibition in the UK dedicated to Mingei, opens at the William Morris Gallery, London, on 23 March, 2024.
Title: Monthly Mingei Vol.3 No.5, June 1941
Author: Yanagi Sōetsu (co-ed.), Ryuzaburo Shikiba, Shigeo Suzuki et. al.
Publication date: June 1941
Publisher: Mingei Association of Japan
Format: softcover
Pages: 80+
Condition: An unusually well preserved example
Stock Number: RB03378-6
Including articles on Latin American crafts, memories of collecting folk implements, farmers handicrafts, straw shoes, Chinese Raku instruments.
The Mingei movement was founded in mid-1920s Japan. Spearheaded by writer, educator, and aesthete Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), the Mingei movement worked to recognise and preserve Japanese folk craft objects and the traditional skills used in making them. Mingei Monthly was published by the Mingei Associaiton between 1939 and 1946. Co-edited by Yanagi Sōetsu it followed the earlier related publications, Shirakaba and Kōgei, also associated with Yanagi.
As the MIngei movement approaches its centenary, “Art Without Heroes: Mingei”, the largest ever exhibition in the UK dedicated to Mingei, opens at the William Morris Gallery, London, on 23 March, 2024.
Title: Monthly Mingei Vol.3 No.5, June 1941
Author: Yanagi Sōetsu (co-ed.), Ryuzaburo Shikiba, Shigeo Suzuki et. al.
Publication date: June 1941
Publisher: Mingei Association of Japan
Format: softcover
Pages: 80+
Condition: An unusually well preserved example
Stock Number: RB03378-6
Including articles on Latin American crafts, memories of collecting folk implements, farmers handicrafts, straw shoes, Chinese Raku instruments.
The Mingei movement was founded in mid-1920s Japan. Spearheaded by writer, educator, and aesthete Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), the Mingei movement worked to recognise and preserve Japanese folk craft objects and the traditional skills used in making them. Mingei Monthly was published by the Mingei Associaiton between 1939 and 1946. Co-edited by Yanagi Sōetsu it followed the earlier related publications, Shirakaba and Kōgei, also associated with Yanagi.
As the MIngei movement approaches its centenary, “Art Without Heroes: Mingei”, the largest ever exhibition in the UK dedicated to Mingei, opens at the William Morris Gallery, London, on 23 March, 2024.
Title: Monthly Mingei Vol.3 No.5, June 1941
Author: Yanagi Sōetsu (co-ed.), Ryuzaburo Shikiba, Shigeo Suzuki et. al.
Publication date: June 1941
Publisher: Mingei Association of Japan
Format: softcover
Pages: 80+
Condition: An unusually well preserved example
Stock Number: RB03378-6
