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Folk vs Mingei - What's the difference?

folk | mingei |

As nouns the difference between folk and mingei

is that folk is people while mingei is a japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items.

folk

English

Alternative forms

* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  • Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  • (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  • Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
    • folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  • * J. R. Green
    • The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
  • The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  • *1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
  • *:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
  • One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
  • (music) Folk music.
  • (plural only) People in general.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
  • (plural only) A particular group of people.

    • Derived terms

    * folk devil * folk etymology * folk hero * folklore * folk medicine * folk memory * folk music * folkster * folksy

    Related terms

    * volk (dialectical)

    References

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    mingei

    English

    (wikipedia mingei)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A Japanese folk art movement focusing on inexpensive hand-made everyday items.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 23, author=William L. Hamilton, title=Tatsuzo Shimaoka, 88, Master of Pottery, Is Dead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He studied industrial ceramics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, inspired by a visit to the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in 1938, where he encountered mingei philosophy, and its objects, for the first time. }}