Taste of "everyday" Japanese people Arts Museum will tell

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A special exhibition entitled "The Shape of Loved Folk Songs-Director Naoto Fukasawa Elabo" is held at "Japanese Folk Museum" (Komaba, Meguro-ku), where items from the folk art collected by Yanagi Soshu are particularly picked up. There is. Access is a 7-minute walk from Keio INOKASHIRA LINE "Komaba Todaimae Station" West Exit, or a 25-minute walk from Shibuya if you pass Yamate Dori from the side of Tokyu Main Store. It would be a good distance for a little walk course.
Japanese Folk Crafts Museum appearance of the main building. Old wing portion and the image in front of the stone fence is registered in the tangible cultural heritage of the country.

Japanese Folk Crafts Museum in 1936, as a base of the Mingei movement that aims to "life of beauty" and dissemination of the concept of the new beauty of "Mingei", opened a Muneyoshi Yanagi thinkers to curator. And collection of the pottery, textiles, Kiurushiko goods, paintings, metalwork, masonry products and braid goods such as Muneyoshi domestic and foreign new old craft about 17,000 points collected, about the "collection and storage of Mingei goods," "Mingei research "and" dissemination of Mingei thought "," Trade "has been active as a main job.
Main Building second floor, the second chamber. Muneyoshi Yanagi and the Mingei movement to promote the Bernard Leach, the exhibition at the center of the work of the Kanjiro Kawai et al.※ exhibit is different from that of the current exhibition

Facility is composed of a "main building", Yanagi is "West Wing (Kyuyanagi Muneyoshi House)", which was a base for living up to his death at the age of 72, including the old building part to be registered in the tangible cultural property. Dyeing and weaving in every room in the main building, in addition to showcase the craft by providing a theme, such as wood lacquerware, conducted the exhibition is on the second floor hall. On the first floor put even museum shop to deal with the new craft. Old wing-West Building both Muneyoshi has worked on the design, building its own atmosphere attractive incorporating Western-style everywhere while subjected to the design of the sum.
Main Building first floor museum shop. Deal with the new craft that was collected from all over the country.

Special Exhibition "form over curator Naoto Fukasawa of Mingei be loved choose" current competitions now is, was appointed Naoto Fukasawa product designer in the fifth generation director Mingeikan, is planning an opportunity to welcome the third year those that have been.

Fukasawa's that have felt the "Aikurushi that does not reject the people" to the collections of Yanagi is, carefully selected goods about 150 points to convey the "loveliness" especially among the collections. 18 century America New Mexico altarpiece of the saint of the facial expression, the 20th century Okinawa Shuurushi Katakuchi of roundness and the luster of the first half, such as the attractions shade of the roof of the dyed with Iegata water droplets of the Chosun Dynasty, craftsmen of open-minded hand many of Mingei article was born by the work are lined up.
Main building second floor and a large exhibition room. "Form of Mingei loved" current competitions now.

Currently in Mingeikan, from your side of the ethnic minorities in addition to exhibitions to the basket to take the fish are arranged under one roof. Age also is common to the genre even those disparate is, that the creator and consumer comes through warm to what you see is I put in the article, "I think." And when I returned to the home to taste the charm of such craft, many of the familiar goods such as kitchen equipment and writing instrument, special suddenly for me, as of memorabilia that gives moisture to your life strange because visible come. Mingeikan that tells us is not only the charm of Mingei goods, they found beauty in such familiar elements, attitude towards life itself to be Taste. Even if everyone is not evaluation, Tatte not expensive, it is that dear important thing is possibly hiding in their own familiar.

You are also tips to enrich their daily life, try to come to find?

"Japanese Folk Crafts Museum"
◯ Address: Meguro-ku, Tokyo Komaba 4-3-33
◯ Open: 10 am to 17 (last admission until 4:30 pm)
※ West Wing (Kyuyanagi Muneyoshi House) is the second Wednesday in the exhibition, the second Saturday and third Wednesday and third public on Saturday (10 am to 16 pm 30 minutes, the final admission until 16 pm)
◯ Closed: Every Monday (but opened and closed the following day if Monday is a national holiday) year-end and New Year holidays, there is temporary closing due to the display sort, etc.
◯ fee: Adults 1,100 yen, Tertiary Level students 600 yen, 200 yen In addition students Konaka
◯電話：03-3467-4527
◯ official:http://www.mingeikan.or.jp/

Special Exhibition "form of Mingei to be loved - Naoto Fukasawa curator chooses"
Yes held: 2015 March 31 (Tuesday) to June 21 (Sunday)

Editorial Yokota

Born in 1980, Kanagawa prefecture. Shibuya since he moved to Tokyo in the period in the university is a sacred place of culture. While now belong to the Shibuya culture project editing unit, is the straw sandals life of two feet to act as a caregiver.