Abstract
This article focuses on how a furniture producer, Sanshiro Ikeda (1909–1999), revived Mingei in modern society, and it clarifies the level of creativity in his handiwork. Ikeda, who organized various types of furniture by its woodworking, which was distinguished by its detail, produced new Mingei furniture with a sense attained during reproduction, a sense that helps craftsmen to adequately modify parts of furniture and assemble them for durability. This sense represents the resistance against the standardization of modernism that links Mingei furniture to contemporary design.
