a fine set of issue no. 106 (as part one) and no. 107 (as part two) of the Japanese magazine Kogei devoted to the crafts of Ainu people of Hokkaido. Complete with pictorial wrapper. Part one is devoted to the textile and is illustrated with twenty tipped-in illustrations in b/w and color. Part two is illustrated with thirty-six tippped-in illustrations of traditional wood objects. Published in Showa 17 (1942) by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961). Size 22x15cm. Kogei was the official journal of the association Nippon Mingei Kyokai, founded in 1926, by the philosopher Yanagi Soetsu and the potters Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro promoting the evaluation of various forms of popular arts.