Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mingei (lit. "folk arts" or "arts of the people"?), the Japanese folk art movement, was developed in the late 1920s and 1930s in Japan. Its founding father was Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). In 1916, Yanagi made his first trip to Korea out of a curiosity for Korean crafts. The trip led to the establishment of the Korean Folk Crafts Museum in 1924, and the coining of the term mingei by Yanagi, potters Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) and Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966). In 1926, the Folk Art Movement was formally declared by Yanagi Soetsu. Yanagi rescued lowly pots used by commoners in the Edo and Meiji period that were disappearing in rapidly urbanizing Japan. In 1936, Japanese Folk Crafts Museum was established.

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