Mingei movement
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The Mingei movement was a Japanese folk art movement that celebrated the beauty and value of everyday handcrafted objects made by anonymous artisans.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japanese folk craft movement | 1 |
| Japanese mingei movement | 1 |
| Mingei movement canonical | 1 |
| mingei (folk craft) theory | 1 |
| mingei as "art of the people" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2301801 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Mingei movement Context triple: [Japan Folk Crafts Museum, associatedWith, Mingei movement]
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People’s Commune movement
The People’s Commune movement was a radical collectivization campaign in late 1950s China that merged rural households into large communal units to reorganize agriculture, labor, and social life under Maoist ideology.
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Kominka movement
The Kominka movement was a Japanization campaign in colonial Taiwan that sought to transform Taiwanese residents into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor through cultural, linguistic, and social assimilation policies.
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C.
White Guard movement
The White Guard movement was a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik, counterrevolutionary forces that fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War following the 1917 Revolution.
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Japan Socialist Women’s League
The Japan Socialist Women’s League was the women’s wing of the Japan Socialist Party, organizing and mobilizing female members around socialist and feminist causes in postwar Japan.
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E.
Asian American movement
The Asian American movement was a grassroots social and political movement that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, uniting diverse Asian ethnic groups in the United States to fight racism, demand civil rights, and build a shared Asian American identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mingei movement Target entity description: The Mingei movement was a Japanese folk art movement that celebrated the beauty and value of everyday handcrafted objects made by anonymous artisans.
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A.
People’s Commune movement
The People’s Commune movement was a radical collectivization campaign in late 1950s China that merged rural households into large communal units to reorganize agriculture, labor, and social life under Maoist ideology.
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B.
Kominka movement
The Kominka movement was a Japanization campaign in colonial Taiwan that sought to transform Taiwanese residents into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor through cultural, linguistic, and social assimilation policies.
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C.
White Guard movement
The White Guard movement was a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik, counterrevolutionary forces that fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War following the 1917 Revolution.
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D.
Japan Socialist Women’s League
The Japan Socialist Women’s League was the women’s wing of the Japan Socialist Party, organizing and mobilizing female members around socialist and feminist causes in postwar Japan.
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E.
Asian American movement
The Asian American movement was a grassroots social and political movement that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, uniting diverse Asian ethnic groups in the United States to fight racism, demand civil rights, and build a shared Asian American identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
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folk art movement ⓘ |
| aestheticIdeal |
natural materials
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unselfconscious beauty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Japanese pottery
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lacquerware ⓘ paper crafts ⓘ textiles ⓘ woodwork ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
beauty of everyday objects
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collective authorship ⓘ functional beauty ⓘ humility in design ⓘ simplicity ⓘ usefulness ⓘ value of anonymous craftsmanship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| defines |
Mingei movement
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
mingei as "art of the people"
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| documentedIn | writings of Yanagi Sōetsu ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
anonymous artisans
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everyday utilitarian objects ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Yanagi Sōetsu ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
mingei movement
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surface form:
mingei
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| hasField |
craft
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design ⓘ folk art ⓘ |
| hasInstitution | Japan Folk Crafts Museum ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Bernard Leach
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Hamada Shōji ⓘ Kawai Kanjirō ⓘ Yanagi Sōetsu ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| inception |
1930s
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late 1920s ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary craft movements
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modern Japanese design ⓘ studio pottery movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arts and Crafts movement
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Buddhist aesthetics ⓘ Japanese folk craft traditions ⓘ William Morris ⓘ Zen philosophy ⓘ |
| opposes |
excessive individualism in art
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industrial mass production aesthetics ⓘ |
| promotes |
handcrafted production
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local materials ⓘ traditional techniques ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Showa era
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surface form:
Shōwa period
Taisho era ⓘ
surface form:
Taishō period
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Subject: Mingei movement Description of subject: The Mingei movement was a Japanese folk art movement that celebrated the beauty and value of everyday handcrafted objects made by anonymous artisans.
Referenced by (5)
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