Four Japanese maps on papermaking locales
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Title: Map of Paper-Making Places in Present-Day Japan - East and West [with] two other maps related to paper-making
Place Published: Tokyo
Publisher:Mingei Kwan
Date Published: 1960
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4 silkscreen color maps on hand-made paper. 46.6x59.7 cm (18¼x23½"). 2 of the 4 tipped to board at top edge: 55x68.3 cm (21½x26¾").
Unlisted in OCLC/WorldCat. Rare maps of paper-making places in Japan, East and West listing the practitioners of this revered Japanese craft. Issued by the Mingei Kwan in Tokyo. The concept of mingei (??), variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi S?etsu (1889-1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Sh?ji (1894-1978) and Kawai Kanjir? (1890-1966). As such, it was a conscious attempt to distinguish ordinary crafts and functional utensils (pottery, lacquerware, textiles, and so on) from "higher" forms of art - at the time much admired by people during a period when Japan was going through rapid westernization, industrialization, and urban growth. In some ways, therefore, mingei may be seen as a reaction to Japan's rapid modernization processes.
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