{"id":1636,"date":"2026-02-07T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:01:06","slug":"new-arrivals-mingei-related-books-and-the-journal-of-the-folk-art-movement-kogei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"New Arrivals: Mingei-related Books and the Journal of the Folk Art Movement, KOGEI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mingei movement<\/strong><\/a>, championed by Yanagi Muneyoshi(Soetsu)<\/strong>, Hamada Shoji, and Kawai Kanjiro<\/strong>, identified beauty in everyday utilitarian objects. Even today, a century after its emergence, the ideas of Mingei remain influential.
\nWe are pleased to announce the arrival of Mingei-related books, including the Journal of the Folk Art Movement, KOGEI<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t“Pottery of Hita” by Yanagi Muneyoshi (Soetsu)\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t“Sculptures by Saint Mokujiki” by Yanagi Muneyoshi (Soetsu)\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t“Tami to Bi” by Yanagi Muneyoshi (Soetsu)\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t“The Japan Folk Crafts Museum” by Yanagi Muneyoshi (Soetsu)\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t“Bijutsu to Kogei no Hanashi” by Yanagi Muneyoshi (Soetsu)\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mingei movement, championed by Yanagi Muneyoshi(Soetsu), Hamada Shoji, and Kawai Kanjiro, identified beauty in everyday utilitarian objects. Even today, a century after its emergence, the ideas of Mingei remain influential. We are pleased to announce the arrival of Mingei-related books, including the Journal of the Folk Art Movement, KOGEI. “Kogei Vol.1” “Kogei Vol.2” “Kogei […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-arrivals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yamada-shoten.com\/english\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}