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The Mingei International Museum is a non-profit public institution in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, that collects, conserves and exhibits folk art, craft and design. The museum was founded in 1974, and its building opened in 1978. [ 1 ]
Mingei International Museum reveals the beauty of use in folk art, craft and design from all eras and cultures of the world. The word mingei, meaning 'art of the people,' was coined by the Japanese scholar Sōetsu Yanagi by combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei). Yanagi's teachings awakened people to the essential need ...
Shinya Yanagi (柳晋哉, born 1987, Tokyo) is a Japanese artisan specializing in tsumugi dyeing and weaving. He is the grandson of the weaver Yoshihiro Yanagi, who is the nephew of Sōetsu Yanagi, who is known as the father of the Mingei (Folk Craft) Movement, and the son of Sou Yanagi, the second-generation head of the Yanagi Dyeing and Weaving Workshop.
Yanagi Sōetsu discovered beauty in everyday ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen. According to Yanagi, utilitarian objects made by the common people are "beyond beauty and ugliness". Below are a few criteria of mingei art and crafts: made by anonymous crafts people; produced by hand in quantity; inexpensive
The concept of mingei (民芸), variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966). As such, it ...
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]
Mingei International Museum: San Diego: Art: Located in Balboa Park, folk art, craft and design from all eras and cultures of the world Mission San Diego de Alcalá: San Diego: Religious: 1769 Franciscan mission church Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: Oceanside: History: Historic Spanish mission and church, cemetery, lavandaria, and museum.
Sadao Watanabe (渡辺 禎雄, Watanabe Sadao, July 7, 1913 – January 8, 1996), born and raised in Tokyo, was a Japanese printmaker.Watanabe was famous for his biblical prints rendered in the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japan.