英和和英

語源

Japanese 民衆的な工芸, “hand-crafted art of ordinary people”.

名詞

mingei (uncountable)

1. A Japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items.
   • 2007 December 23, William L. Hamilton, “Tatsuzo Shimaoka, 88, Master of Pottery, Is Dead”, New York Times:

     He studied industrial ceramics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, inspired by a visit to the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in 1938, where he encountered mingei philosophy, and its objects, for the first time.