The second exhibition I recently visited was "Shoya Yoshida's Design: The Future Aimed for by the New Mingei Movement" at the ...

Over the past century, the Mingei movement has endured and undergone waves of revival in popularity. Going by a recent flurry of books and exhibitions in Japan and abroad, its ideas appear to be in ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Mingei (folk craft) movement, and I have encountered a wonderful ...

One of the most important art, design and philosophical movements to come out of Japan is now nearly a hundred years old. It's called Mingei, or folk crafts. It reflects a reaction to modernity and ...

Foreword: living with Mingei / Yoshizawa Tomo -- Introduction / R̤is̕n Inglesby -- Morris, Mingei and studio crafts: the transformative idea of the art of the people / Yuko Kikuchi -- The role of ...