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 officially announced their desire to establish a folk crafts museum in 1926.[3] Construction began on the museum in 1935 and was completed in 1936.[3]

The museum covers 1,818 square meters and was constructed with a traditional Japanese architectural style. A 'long' stone-roofed gate-cum-residence (nagaya-mon) was brought from the Tochigi Prefecture and reconstructed in front of the building.[3]

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. Soetsu Yanagi (2019). The Beauty of Everyday Things. Penguin Classics. pp. 327f. ISBN 9780241366356.



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