Monthly Mingei April 1939 (First Issue)
First issue of Monthly Mingei, April 1939. Includes the "Tree of Mingei" illustration and article describing the three main branches of Mingei: A museum (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum), a store (Folk Crafts Shop Takumi), and a publishing arm (The Japan Folk Craft Association). Cover shows a hollowed out laden found by Yanagi Soetsu at Itokura, South of Naha in the Ryukyu. Yanagi states that only three people were making ladles of this sort at the time. Also includes photographs of the interior of The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, an article by Bernard Leach “From England”, recent work by Shoji Hamada, a chinese chaise lounge, “kiln and calligraphy” and more…
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 Association between 1939 and 1946 before being renamed simply, The Mingei. Co-edited by Yanagi Sōetsu it followed the earlier related publications, Shirakaba and Kōgei, also associated with Yanagi.
“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
Author: Yanagi Sōetsu (co-ed.)
Publication date: April 1939
Publisher: Mingei Association of Japan
Format: softcover
Pages: 35+
Condition: Good/very good. Loss to upper left corner of cover, tape residue to left edge of cover, damage to spine.
Stock Number: RB03378-15
First issue of Monthly Mingei, April 1939. Includes the "Tree of Mingei" illustration and article describing the three main branches of Mingei: A museum (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum), a store (Folk Crafts Shop Takumi), and a publishing arm (The Japan Folk Craft Association). Cover shows a hollowed out laden found by Yanagi Soetsu at Itokura, South of Naha in the Ryukyu. Yanagi states that only three people were making ladles of this sort at the time. Also includes photographs of the interior of The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, an article by Bernard Leach “From England”, recent work by Shoji Hamada, a chinese chaise lounge, “kiln and calligraphy” and more…
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 Association between 1939 and 1946 before being renamed simply, The Mingei. Co-edited by Yanagi Sōetsu it followed the earlier related publications, Shirakaba and Kōgei, also associated with Yanagi.
“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
Author: Yanagi Sōetsu (co-ed.)
Publication date: April 1939
Publisher: Mingei Association of Japan
Format: softcover
Pages: 35+
Condition: Good/very good. Loss to upper left corner of cover, tape residue to left edge of cover, damage to spine.
Stock Number: RB03378-15
First issue of Monthly Mingei, April 1939. Includes the "Tree of Mingei" illustration and article describing the three main branches of Mingei: A museum (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum), a store (Folk Crafts Shop Takumi), and a publishing arm (The Japan Folk Craft Association). Cover shows a hollowed out laden found by Yanagi Soetsu at Itokura, South of Naha in the Ryukyu. Yanagi states that only three people were making ladles of this sort at the time. Also includes photographs of the interior of The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, an article by Bernard Leach “From England”, recent work by Shoji Hamada, a chinese chaise lounge, “kiln and calligraphy” and more…
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 Association between 1939 and 1946 before being renamed simply, The Mingei. Co-edited by Yanagi Sōetsu it followed the earlier related publications, Shirakaba and Kōgei, also associated with Yanagi.
“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
Author: Yanagi Sōetsu (co-ed.)
Publication date: April 1939
Publisher: Mingei Association of Japan
Format: softcover
Pages: 35+
Condition: Good/very good. Loss to upper left corner of cover, tape residue to left edge of cover, damage to spine.
Stock Number: RB03378-15
