Collecting Mingei: Three Perspectives
Japanese folk art and crafts both fall into the collecting category Mingei. This overarching term covers everything from pre-industrial crafts to handmade everyday tools and vessels. In this February 7, 2021, Webinar, Kyoko Utsumi Mimura, Waseda University arts faculty member and former Director of the Mingeikan in Tokyo; Ty Heineken, Joint Director, Studio Japan, in Kingston, New Jersey, and author with his wife, Kiyoko, of Tansu: Traditional Japanese Cabinetry, published by John Weatherhill in 1981, the first cultural overview on the subject in a foreign language; and David M. Kahn, Executive Director of the Adirondack Experience in upstate New York and a JASA board member, discuss their approach on collecting.