１ The Concept

Tradition is molded by the present. Tradition remains relevant, and Kogei serves as the root of our beauty.
The world known today as Kogei once encompassed the entire realm of beauty in Japan. Since the introduction of art from Western Europe during the Meiji Restoration, that art and Japan’s traditional Kogei appear to have developed along separate paths in Japan, and yet we are ever aware that our sense of beauty continues to be rooted in the world known as traditional Kogei.
We hope this exhibition will provide an opportunity to examine the creation of beauty that takes place throughout our lives as it endures and interacts with the passage of time.

２ Other information

The Kinki Branch of the Japan Kōgei Association has been involved in numerous workshops and video productions with the aim of nurturing the next generation of artisans and promoting our culture.A selection of these materials is available on this website.

 

 

３ Handbook for the Appreciation of Japanese Traditional Crafts

https://www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/en

The Japan Kōgei Association is pleased to be able to include on its website this English version of its Nihon Dentō Kōgei Kanshō no Tebiki (Handbook for the Appreciation of Japan Traditional Art Crafts). The Nihon Dentō Kōgei Kanshō no Tebiki was published in 1999 and the English translation was originally prepared in 2003 to celebrate the staging of the 50th Nihon Dentō Kōgeiten (Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition).

While the 2003 English text uses ‘Crafts’ as a translation of the Japanese term工芸, in this introduction we have used the transliteration ‘Kōgei’ instead. The reason for this is that in 2013, when preparations were being made for the 60th Nihon Dentō Kōgeiten, it was decided that ‘Crafts’ was an inappropriate way of describing the types of work shown in the exhibition and that it should be replaced by the Japanese term ‘Kōgei’ or, when unavoidable, the English expression ‘Art Crafts’.

We very much hope that these English pages on our website will help foster a broad and global appreciation of Japan’s Traditional Kōgei.

Ceramics　Textiles　Urushiwork

　Metalwork  Woodwork＆Bamboowork

Dolls　Variousworks

 

https://www.nihonkogeikai.or.jp/en