The Endless pursuit of inner desires: Yanagi Sōetsu before Mingei

Amid the rapid changes brought on by Japan’s modernization and urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries arose a discourse of the appreciation of folk cultu...

Yanagi Sōetsu put forward the word "Mingei (Folk Craft)" in 1925 and jointly published the "Purport Book on the Establishment of Japan Mingei Museum" with Tomimoto Kenkichi, Kawai ...

The aim of the research is to shed light on cross-cultural interpretations of mingei, a philosophy developed in the 1920s by the Japanese collector and art historian Yanagi Soetsu....

Developed in Japan in the mid-1920s, "Mingei" denotes a concept that encompasses objects, aesthetics, and philosophy. Developed by three individuals—religious philosopher and aesth...

Tribal Textiles and the Mingei Circle in Japan: Muneyoshi Yanagi’s View on Carpet Yumiko Kamada, Keio University, Tokyo Follow Date of this Version 2020 Citation Published in H...

Durant les années 1910, Yanagi Sōetsu s'investit dans la revue Shirakaba. Bien avant le mingei, deux questions sous-tendent son travail : l'individu créateur et l'œuvre d'art....

Introduction au dossier sur le mingei undō (mouvement des Arts populaires) et son fondateur, Yanagi Sōetsu, fruit d'une rencontre qui s'est tenue le 15 janvier 2009 à l'Inalco....

Introduction au dossier sur le mingei undō (mouvement des Arts populaires) et son fondateur, Yanagi Sōetsu, fruit d'une rencontre qui s'est tenue le 15 janvier 2009 à l'Inalco....