Mingei Treasures

Professor Andrew Maske writes about the Mingei Movement, propelled in the 1920s by Soetsu Yanagi, Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai, and continued by Tatsuzo Shimaoka. Pucker Gallery’s 2010 exhibition included significant collections of work by Hamada and Shimaoka, and a few pieces each by Kawai, Rosanjin Kitaoji, Hamada Shinsaku, 19th-century Seto ware, and contemporary Onda Yaki.