MINGEI RESOURCES

Partington, Matthew. Ray Finch and Functional. Understanding of the word ‘functional’.

http://www.uwic.ac.uk/icrc/joiurnal001/finch/finch2..htm

MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM: FOLK TOYS OF THE WORLD

http://www.mingei.org/brtoys.html

MASHIKO MINGEI TSUBO: Japanese pottery

MINGEI: Japanese Folk Art from the Montgomery Collection

North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts

http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/japanmingei/index.htm

Platters of the Heart: Review of Exhibit at the Mead Art Museum

Traditional Japanese Pottery depict the beauty of simplicity

http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/art/97/08/01/BARNES_COLLECTION.html

MINGEI: what is mingei?

http://www.blueandwhiteamerica.com/amingei.htm

Art Without Heroes: Soetsu Yanagi and the Japanese Folk Craft Movement

http://www.wre.liverpool.k12.ny.us/Whacked/Mongolia/Mingei.htm

Philosophy of Soetsu Yanagi (1889 – 1961), founder of the Japan Folk Craft Movement

http://www.wre.Liverpool.k12.ny.us/Whacked/Mongolia/Mingphil.htm

                                      Mingei Resources                             

Hauge, Victor and Takako. Folk Traditions In Japanese Art. Kodansha

International LTD. Tokyo, New York & San Francisco. 1978.

Leach, Bernard. The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty.

Kodansha International LTD. Japan, 1972.

Leach, Bernard. the living treasures of Japan. Kodansha International LTD.

Tokyo, New York & San Francisco. 1973.

Moes, Robert. Mingei: Japanese Folk Art. The Brooklyn Museum. Universe Books. New York & Japan. 1985.

Munsterberg, Hugo. the folk arts of Japan. Charles e. Tuttle Co.: Rutland,

Vermont & Tokyo, Japan. 1958.

Muraoka, Kageo and Okamura, Kichiemon. Folk Arts and Crafts of Japan.

John Weatherhill Inc. Japan. 1973.