Tottori_Folk_Crafts_Museum

Tottori Folk Crafts Museum

Tottori Folk Crafts Museum

Building in Tottori Prefecture, Japan


The Tottori Folk Crafts Museum (鳥取民芸美術館, Tottori Mingei Bijutsukan) opened in Tottori, Japan, in 1949. It was established as the Tottori Mingeikan by Yoshida Shōya (吉田璋也), local advocate of the mingei folk craft movement, who formed a craft guild in 1931 and opened the craft shop "Takumi" in the city the following year. In 1933, Yoshida opened a shop by the same name in Tokyo's Ginza district. Both shops are still in operation as of 2023.[1][2] The building in which the Tottori museum is housed was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2012.[3]

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  1. Kikuchi Yuko (2004). Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural nationalism and Oriental Orientalism. Routledge. p. 74. ISBN 9780415297905.
  2. 鳥取民藝美術館・たくみ工芸館 [Tottori Folk Crafts Museum - Takumi Craft Hall] (in Japanese). Tottori Prefecture. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  3. 鳥取民芸美術館』登録有形文化財(建造物)登録のお知らせ [Notice of the Registration of the Tottori Folk Crafts Museum as a Tangible Cultural Property] (in Japanese). Tottori City. Retrieved 18 May 2012.

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