HIROSHIMA MUSEUM OF ART 3-2 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City (in Central Park) tel: 082 - 223 - 2530; fax: 082 - 223 - 2519 internet: http://www.mighty.co.jp/museum
		•Folk Arts from Yi-cho (Yi-dynasty in Korea) and Mingei (Folkcrafts) from Living National Treasures in Japan January 3 - February 15, 2004
			SOETSU (MUNEYOSHI) YANAGI (1889-1961), an aesthetician, philosopher, and writer, was established the ‘mingei undo (folk craft movement)’. He discovered a new realm of the beauty in ordinary utensils created by anonymous artisans. Yanagi and his fellows called these objects ‘mingei’, the term as an abbreviation of minshuteki kogei (people’s crafts). They assembled and researched on old folk crafts, especially in Korea and Jepan, while encouraged and developed the production of the new mingei. In this exhibition, we introduce about 150 works collected by Yanagi, and created by some artists following Yanagi’s theory on the beauty of mingei.
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