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MINGEIKAN EVENT ARCHIVE
- Four special exhibitions yearly. Many exhibitions are accompanied by seminars, gallery talks, or concerts.
- New Works Competition (Shinsakuten), held once each year in late November or early December, to attract works from all fields of craft in Japan. Many pieces are then offered for sale to the public.
- Click here for up-to-date scheduling and admission times.
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Exhibition List From 2008 Back to 1995 Below links may jump to other site sections.
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2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
- English Slipware (Spring 2004)
- Textiles from Pakistan (Summer 2004)
- Yanagi Soetsu and Korean Yi Dynasty Art (Fall 2004)
- Bernard Leach & Hamada Shoji (Winter 2004)
2003
- Native Crafts from the North and South (Spring 2003)
- World of Serizawa Keisuke (Summer 2003)
- The World of Indigo Dyeing (Fall 2003)
- Masks from Kyushu (Winter 2003)
2002
- Closed for Museum Renovation (Spring 2002)
- Oriental Art at the Mingeikan (Summer 2002)
- Western Art at the Mingeikan (Fall 2002)
- 100th Anniversary, Munakata Shiko (Winter 2002)
2001
- Bernard Leach & Hamada Shoji (Spring 2001)
- Textiles from Central Asia (Summer 2001)
- Onta Ware (Fall 2001)
- Crafts from Yi Dynasty Korea (Winter 2001)
2000
- Japanese Ceramics (Spring 2000)
- Textiles from Africa (Summer 2000)
- Art from Okinawa (Fall 2000)
- Dyeing & Weaving in Japan and Asia (Winter 2000)
1999
- Old Tamba Ware (Spring 1999)
- Kawai Kanjiro (Summer 1999)
- Indigo - The Colors of Japan (Fall 1999)
- Japanese Folk Paintings (Winter 1999)
1998
- Pottery from Kyushu (Spring 1998)
- Munakata Shiko (Summer 1998)
- Folk Craft Beauty from Eyes of Yanagi Soetsu (Fall 1998)
- Dyeing & Weaving in Central America (Winter 1998)
1997
- 60th Anniversary: Mingeikan & Its Early Members (Spring 1997)
- Art of Yi Dynasty Korea (Summer 1997)
- Three Mingei Dyeing Artists (Fall 1997)
- Bamboo Ware & Straw Ware (Winter 1997)
1996
- Folk Paintings (Spring 1996)
- Textiles & Embroidery of India (Summer 1996)
- 60th Museum Anniversary: Okinawa Handicrafts (Fall 1996)
- 60th Museum Anniversary: Folk Pottery (Winter 1996)
1995
- Bernard Leach & His Japanese Comrades (Summer 1995)
- Launch of Mingeikan web site (July 1995)
- Indigo Culture (Fall 1995)
- Ema from Southern China (Winter 1995)
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Exhibition List 1986 to 1994
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- Yi Dynasty Art (Korea) and Art from Okinawa
- Beauty of Yi Dynasty Art from Eyes of Yanagi Soetsu (1994)
- Art from Okinawa (1991, 1992)
- Yi Dynasty Art (1990)
- Folk Crafts from the Yi Dynasty (1986)
- Overseas Folk Crafts, Ancient Art
- Art from Southeast Asia (1993)
- Textiles of Afghanistan (1991)
- The World of Earthenware (1989)
- Folk Crafts from India (1988)
- Northern Europe Lapland, Art of Sami Tribe
- Japanese Folk Crafts
- Crafts from the Snowy Country (1994)
- Ainu Art (1994)
- The World of Wood Work (1993)
- Indigo Beauty (1992)
- Old Tamba Ceramics (1991)
- Dyed Goods of the Edo Period (1990)
- Otsu-e Popular Folk Paintings (1990)
- Mingei of the Showa Period (1989)
- The World of Kasuri / Ikat (1989)
- Folk Paintings (1988)
- From Yanagi's Perspective (1988)
- The World of Textile Dyeing (1987)
- Japanese Handicrafts (1987)
- Folk Crafts of the Edo Era (1986)
- Artwork by Early Mingeikan Members
- 100th Anniversary, Serizawa Keisuke (1994)
- Hamada Shoji (1992)
- Encounter with Yanagi Soetsu and William Blake (1990)
- 100th Anniversary, Kawai Kanjiro (1990)
- Munakata Shiko (1989)
- Bernard Leach & Hamada Shoji (1988)
- Kawai Kanjiro & Munakata Shiko (1987)
- 100th Anniversary, Bernard Leach (1986)
- Yanagi Soetsu & The Early Mingei Members (1986)

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