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Mingei AI image prompts
The Japanese folk-craft philosophy founded by Yanagi Sōetsu, finding beauty in the honest, anonymous, hand-made objects of everyday use — pottery, textiles, and tools made for life, not display. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Mingei vocabulary.
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Midjourney
a product design in the Mingei style, mingei folk craft, japanese utility pottery, hand-thrown stoneware bowl, indigo folk textile, natural ash glaze, anonymous craftsman object, everyday tableware beauty, yanagi folk craft, hand-made, natural-materials, utilitarian, unornamented, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A product design in the Mingei style. Emphasize mingei folk craft, japanese utility pottery, hand-thrown stoneware bowl, indigo folk textile, natural ash glaze, anonymous craftsman object, everyday tableware beauty, yanagi folk craft. The mood is hand-made, natural-materials, utilitarian, unornamented. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a product design in the Mingei style, mingei folk craft, japanese utility pottery, hand-thrown stoneware bowl, indigo folk textile, natural ash glaze, anonymous craftsman object, everyday tableware beauty, yanagi folk craft, hand-made, natural-materials, utilitarian, unornamented, highly detailed, sharp focus Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed
Mingei keyword vocabulary
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