A Socioeconomic Essay on Mingei Movement with Some Reference to the Arts and Crafts Movement in UK

According to the proposition brought about by Yanagi at its early stage, Mingei (Folk Crafts) are, originally, objects of household, by unknown craftsmen and for everyday use of ordinary people. Thanks to these properties, handicrafts become appreciative of beauty. In the theory of Mingei, the act of creation alone is not sufficient to give things beauty. All crafts have to have 'after-life' and beauty to a large extent arises from the way in which things are used in this after-life. That is why, the more objects are used, the more beautiful they become. As a matter of fact, however, a number of Mingei used to turn out different things.