Japan Folk-Craft Museum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Japan Folk-Craft Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Newly Designed Handicrafts" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2011-12-10 - 2011-12-23
Annual exhibition and sale of newly designed handicrafts from across Japan, including ceramics, porcelain, woven and dyed fabrics, lacquer, woodwork, metalwork, glass, bamboo pieces and more.More »
"Paintings from the Joseon Dynasty" Exhibition
[10][0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-09-13 - 2011-11-23
Paintings from the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) include both works by royal court painters and "folk paintings" on folding screens done by anonymous artists who often depicted flower and bird motifs using...More »
"Keisuke Serizawa and Yoshitaka Yanagi - Dyed and Woven Works" Exhibition
[21][2]- Media: Painting - Fashion - Crafts
- 2011-07-05 - 2011-09-04
Dyeing crafts artists Keisuke Seizawa and Yoshitaka Yanagi are representative artists of the Mingei Folk Art Movement in the fields of dyeing and fabric-weaving. Both of them greatly respected each other...More »
"Masterpieces of the Nihon Mingeikan - Commemorating its 75th Anniversary" Exhibition
[23][1]- Media: Crafts - Ceramics
- 2011-04-05 - 2011-06-26
The Japan Folk-Craft Museum was founded in 1936 in order to introduce visitors to the beauty ordinary crafts that speak to the spiritual and practical needs of life. Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), the first...More »
"Japanese Antique Dolls from Miharu, Konosu, Tsutsumi and other areas" Exhibition
[6][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2011-01-09 - 2011-03-21
This exhibition at the Japan Folk Craft Museum showcases around 100 antique handmade Japanese folk dolls from our collection. Made during the late Edo through the beginning of the Meiji era, these dolls...More »
"Kanjiro Kawai: 120th Birth Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition"
[12][5]- Media: Crafts - Ceramics
- 2010-09-14 - 2010-11-23
Kanjiro Kawai was a leading Japanese ceramic artist and one of the founders of the Mingei movement. He was known as an expert on the use of ceramic glazes, winning accolades from both Japan and abroad...More »
"Japanese Dyed Works" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2010-07-06 - 2010-09-05
On display is a selection of over 70 Japanese tie-dyed, stencil-dyed and glue resist fabrics from the museum collection, including bedclothes, headdress from the Shonai region, and bingata resist-dyed...More »
"Korean Ceramics - Muneyoshi Yanagi 50th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition"
[6][1]- Media: Crafts - Ceramics
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-06-27
Muneyoshi Yanagi, the founder of the Japan Folk-Craft Museum, was fascinated by Korean ceramics and porcelain from an early age, writing extensively on the topic. This exhibition focuses on Yanagi's relationship...More »
"Art of Weaving" Exhibition
[8][2]- Media: Crafts
- 2010-01-06 - 2010-03-22
Showcasing woven works such as baskets and straw raincoats produced by Japanese, Koreans and Native Americans.More »
2009 Japan Folk-Craft Museum Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Crafts - Ceramics
- 2009-12-05 - 2009-12-20
Focusing on the traditional handiwork of Japanese artisans, this annual exhibition introduces new craft pieces from all over Japan, ranging from ceramics and textiles to metal and glass works.More »
"The World of Soetsu Yanagi" Exhibition
[19][5]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2009-09-08 - 2009-11-19
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Soetsu Yanagi, the initiator of Mingei Movement and founder of Japan Folk-Craft Museum, this special exhibition traces his achievements. Member of Shirakaba...More »
"The Beauty of Western Furniture" Exhibition
[9][1]- Media: Furniture
- 2009-06-23 - 2009-08-16
The majority of the museum's furniture collection consists of British pieces that follow in the tradition of medieval times. Simple yet bold, these works speak of the beauty that flourished in the society...More »
Shiko Munakata Exhibition
[4][1]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy
- 2009-03-31 - 2009-06-14
It was Muneyoshi Yanagi, the founder of the museum, who discovered the talent of Shiko Munakata (1903-1975) as a painter. Well acquainted with the leaders of the Craft Movement such as Yanagi, Kanjiro...More »
"Japanese Min-ga Painting -Otsue and Doro-e" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-01-06 - 2009-03-22
The founder of the museum, Muneyoshi Yanagi, started using the term "min-ga" to categorize paintings that were created and sold within the private sector. Among them, Otsu-e and doro-e are considered to...More »
2008 Japan Folk Craft Museum Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Other - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2008-12-06 - 2008-12-20
Focusing on the traditional handiwork of Japanese artisans, this annual exhibition introduces new craft pieces from all over Japan. This year's installment will be held in the museum's big exhibition hall....More »
"Keys and Locks from Korea" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Other
- 2008-09-09 - 2008-11-20
From the collection of the Sette Museum in Seoul, Korea, this exhibition showcases 150 keys and locks, 30 bolts and 30 key holders. The Sette Museum is a private museum focusing on artifacts such as traditional...More »
"Ceramic Master Shoji Hamada 30th Anniversary" Exhibition
[2][2]- Media: Ceramics
- 2008-06-17 - 2008-08-31
Together with Muneyoshi Yanagi, the founder of the Japan Folk-Craft Museum, ceramicist Kanjiro Kawai, and ceramic master Shoji Hamada started folk-craft movement. Moreover, Hamada served as the 2nd director...More »
"Okinawa Textiles" Exhibition
[6][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2008-04-01 - 2008-06-08
In 1938, 2 years after founding this Museum, Muneyoshi Yanagi visited Okinawa for the first time and was struck by the beauty of Okinawan textiles. Yanagi visited the site three more times before 1940....More »
"Beauty of Woodblock Prints and Stone Rubbings" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Prints
- 2008-01-06 - 2008-03-23
Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961) collected many works produced by nameless artisans. These items, which are today of irreplaceable value, were used by the ordinary people in their everyday lives. In this exhibition,...More »
"White Porcelain & Sometsuke" Exhibition
[5][0]- Media: Crafts - Ceramics
- 2007-07-03 - 2007-09-24
White porcelain refers to ceramic ware from white clay which is covered with transparent glaze and fired to a high temperature. During the latter half of the 6th century, more advanced methods of kiln...More »
"Pictorial Banners in the Edo Era - Banners & Streamers (Nobori)" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2007-04-03 - 2007-06-24
Banners (Nobori) are universally popular, but there is no other country that uses them as extensively as Japan. Even today, banners are used for business advertisements, show business and festivals at...More »
"Soetsu Yanagi and Old Tamba Pottery" Exhibition
[5][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2007-01-07 - 2007-03-25
Yanagi Soetsu, founder of the Nihon Mingeikan, highly regarded Tamba pottery. He stated that Tamba pottery is uniquely Japanese and that it expresses an extreme quality of austerity in form, color and...More »
"Soetsu Yanagi and Korean Folk Painting" Exhibition
[7][1]- Media: Painting
- 2006-10-03 - 2006-12-20
Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), the first director and founder of the Museum, coined the term "Mingei" (folk art) in 1926 to refer to common crafts that had been brushed aside by the industrial revolution....More »
The Great Masters of the Folkcraft Movement
[5][4]- Media: Crafts
- 2006-07-04 - 2006-09-24
Soetsu Yanagi, creator of the philosophy of Mingei and the founder of the Nihon Mingeikan, had many great artist-friends who believed in, lived by, and propagated his ideas on beauty. Such friends were...More »
70 Year Founding Anniversary Special Exhibition: "The Soetsu Yanagi Collection"
[5][2]- Media: Crafts
- 2006-04-04 - 2006-06-25
To commemorate the 70th year since the founding of the museum, an exhibition of founder Soetsu Yanagi's lifetime achievements is being held. Taken from the museum collection of approximately 17,000 works...More »
National Living Treasures of Folk Art
[6][2]- Media: Crafts
- 2006-01-07 - 2006-03-25
150 works from artists that were affiliated with Yanagi Soetsu (Muneyoshi) and named as National Living Treasures in the Showa and Heisei periods. There will be sculptures by Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Ryukyu pottery...More »
The "Iki" and Beauty of Korean Women
[2][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2005-10-04 - 2005-12-20
On display are a 150 items who belonged to women who lived during the Chosen Dynasty. Lent by South Korea's Amore Pacific Museum, they showcase the "iki" spirit, the snappy ingenuity of Korean women.More »
The Beauty of the Ryukyu Archipel
[3][0]- Media: Prints - Crafts - Art Talk
- 2005-07-05 - 2005-09-25
The Ryukyu Archipel, better known as Okinawa, developed its own arts and crafts while incorporating elements from Japan, China and South-East Asia. This exhibition shows more than 200 Okinawan items,...More »
Ceramics in Kyushu
[1][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2005-04-05 - 2005-06-26
Around 150 works of Imari, Karatsu (Saga Prefecture), Onta (Oita Prefecture), Shodai (Kumamoto Prefecture), Naeshirogawa, Nanegashima (Kagoshima Prefecture), etc will be on display. These are Kyushu ceramics,...More »
Special Exhibition Otsu-e
[1][0]- Media: Painting
- 2005-01-07 - 2005-03-27
Otsu-e Paintings were popular souvenirs of Otsu, located along the Tokaido Road, during the Edo-period. Over 100 Otsu-e paintings from the museum collection will be on display at this exhibition.More »
Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada
[0][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2004-10-05 - 2004-12-19
Bernard Leach built his original style mixing East Asian China with English traditional technique. Shoji Hamada created the beauty of daily life in his works of ceramics with the technique of Masuko area....More »
