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- noun A
Japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Leach-Hamada tour, along with the publication of a book called "The Unknown Craftsman", a treatise on mingei ideals by Soetsu Yanagi, introduced a generation of European and American craftsmen, designers and artists to traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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The Leach-Hamada tour, along with the publication of a book called "The Unknown Craftsman", a treatise on mingei ideals by Soetsu Yanagi, introduced a generation of European and American craftsmen, designers and artists to traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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The Leach-Hamada tour, along with the publication of a book called "The Unknown Craftsman", a treatise on mingei ideals by Soetsu Yanagi, introduced a generation of European and American craftsmen, designers and artists to traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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Hamada was deeply influenced by the philosophy of mingei - literally "arts of the people" - a back-to-basics folk pottery revival movement that developed during the late 1920s as Japan was rapidly industrializing.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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The Leach-Hamada tour, along with the publication of a book called "The Unknown Craftsman", a treatise on mingei ideals by Soetsu Yanagi, introduced a generation of European and American craftsmen, designers and artists to traditional Japanese aesthetics.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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Hamada was deeply influenced by the philosophy of mingei - literally "arts of the people" - a back-to-basics folk pottery revival movement that developed during the late 1920s as Japan was rapidly industrializing.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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Hamada was deeply influenced by the philosophy of mingei - literally "arts of the people" - a back-to-basics folk pottery revival movement that developed during the late 1920s as Japan was rapidly industrializing.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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Hamada was deeply influenced by the philosophy of mingei - literally "arts of the people" - a back-to-basics folk pottery revival movement that developed during the late 1920s as Japan was rapidly industrializing.
Sarah Archer: Handmade for Japan: Aid Through Art Sarah Archer 2011
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There was a movement, begun in the early Shwa years, to invest dignity in Japanese handicraft or folk art, the mingei movement, advocated by Yanagi Setsu (18891961).
Cultural Trends 2001
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But perhaps the most indelible influence on Yanagi was that of his father, Soetsu Yanagi, who led the "mingei" movement, which celebrated Japanese folk craft and the beauty of everyday objects, and who founded the Nihon Mingeikan or Japanese Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo.
NYT > Home Page By BROOKE HODGE 2012
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He called it mingei, for “people crafts,” a philosophy that argued for the elevation of functional domestic objects—fabrics, utensils, pottery — often made by anonymous crafts people but representative of the region of their making.
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He and two potters, Hamada Shoji (who made the plates in the picture) and Kawai Kanjiro, dubbed these wares mingei, a neologism fusing the characters for “the masses” and “crafts”.
Finding beauty in ordinary things The Economist 2020
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