Japan Folk Art Museum

A museum for the display of folk crafts, mingei, and for the preservation, fostering and spread of the skills behind them. It began in Showa 25 (1950) as a private museum in a converted Edo-period rice warehouse in Dojima that had survived the fires of the war. In Showa 35 (1960), marking ten years since it opened, it moved to its present site into two newly built three-storey reinforced concrete blocks designed on the theme of a castle, and it was registered as a museum. At the heart of the collection are old ceramics from kilns around the country, ko-Tanba and ko-Seto among them, through to fine pieces made today, and these are said to be sold as well.

Translated and shortened from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).