Furin. Kokeshi. Bangasa. Daruma. Uchiwa. Maneki-neko. Jizo-sama. These are a few of the many folk arts that have endured through the centuries in Japan. Now you can learn more about their history, their symbolism, and how they are made.
Art critic Amaury Saint-Gilles, a longtime former resident of Tokyo now living in Hawaii, wrote this book as the catalog for an 1983 exhibition of Japanese folk art in Philadelphia. Mingei describes local folk art from Hokkaido to Okinawa with one or more entries per prefecture. Each entry has a black and white line drawing on the left page and the text on the right. The book also includes 20 pages of full color photographs. There are a few spelling errors, but they do not detract from the interesting content.
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Unfortunately I could not find it on amazon.com. And the link to Tuttle publishing is not working.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
January 04, 2002
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Saint-Gilles, Amaury. Mingei: Japan's Enduring Folk Arts. Tuttle. 1989.