5-10 Cover for Kogei (Craft) Magazine

The Kogei magazine was the first bulletin of the Mingei movement. 120 issues were published between 1931 and 1951. The circulation of the Kogei magazine gradually increased from an initial 500~600, to 1,000 by the end of 1935, and finally to 2,000 by 1951. The magazine was supervised by Soetsu Yanagi who designed it to be a craftwork in itself—planning, editing and choosing the cover design, illustrations, and paper quality according to his own exquisite taste. Motoju Miyosawa was entrusted with the binding for volumes 110, 112, 113, 114, 115 and 119.