Many people return home during summer vacation and spend their time locally. I was one of them. My local Kurashiki is a tourist destination represented by the Ohara Museum of Art, which was opened in a local city instead of Tokyo in 1930, but is also characterized by many folk art stores. It is not a souvenir shop, but a shop that sells locally used vessels and handicraft works.
My son's Kurashiki glass
These are Kurashiki glass, which is rich in the warmth of blown glass.
The left is the grandchild's squid, and the right is the grandma's squid.
Here's a go. It's a handbag that's woven with a gogusa. Kurashiki used to be a production area of Igusa. It is a shopping basket made between the work of tatami mats.
I've never felt strange about the fact that there are many folk art stores, but in recent years I often see that the second generation successor has been featured in a magazine that proposes natural lifestyles.
Kurashiki Glass is my son. I'm a grandchild. Isn't it very rare to have a proper successor in the world of folk art?
With the ingenuity of the times, the current cup of Kurashiki glass is thinner with a good mouthfeel. Today's squid is tightly knitted with the handle.
I have the opportunity to see such folk art works in Tokyo.
The folk art exhibition will be held at Nihonbashi Takashimaya from Wednesday, August 30 to Monday, September 11.
When I looked into "folk art,"
In 1926, Soetsu Yanagi, Shoji Hamada, Kanjiro Kawai and others proposed that living tools rooted in daily life have healthy beauty according to their needs, and named the everyday life tools created by unnamed craftsmen "folk art".
When Yanagi tried to donate folk art collected from all over the country to the Tokyo National Museum, it was refused by the museum and opened the Japan folk art Museum in Komaba, Tokyo with the help of businessman Ohara.
Now, why there are many folk art stores in Kurashiki, and every time I go to the Ohara Museum of Art, I follow the route, and I think I have solved the mystery of the discomfort around the folk art Museum after admiring Lenoir, Rouault and Elgleco.
Please take a look at Japanese handicrafts.
