Herbarium and textile: Mayuko Fujii
Material: Silk
Dye: Yulan magnolia
Herbarium and textile: Mayuko Fujii
Material: Silk
Dye: Yulan magnolia
Sash clip Naho Kamada
Here is to propose how to enjoy Fukusa not just as one of the tools for tea ceremony but as a part of art, and as to complement the main item.
“ Flow” 2020
Material: Silk
Dye: Katsura tree, Lithospermum root
Grow up from a little girl into a young small lady
The seven-year-old shows various expression
It is as if a pretty flower
“Ink black fine chequered pattern” 2019
Material: Silk
Dye: Japanese green alder, Logwood, Katsura tree
“Sprout” 2019
Material: Silk
Dye: Japanese butterbur, Mugwort, Aster, Yulan, etc
“The first day of spring” 2019
Material: Silk
Dye: Yulan, Japanese Apricot, Aster, Lithospermum root, Chestnut
“Float in Music”
Stone Carving: Ayako UEDA
Shifu: Mayuko FUJII
Music woven in Shifu: BACH ”Suite Ⅵ BWV1012 SARABAND” selected by Ayako UEDA
Washi: Yoshiko KAKO
Photograph: Isao HIRACHI presented by Gallery SU
Masaya HASHIMOTO material/ buckhorn
Mayukko FUJII (made Fukusa) material/ silk, cherry
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Asako TANAKA / Masaya HASHIMOTO : Intimate Otherness
17June – 2 July 2017 Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Hours : 2-7pm (Final Day 5pm)
Opening Party :17June, 5-7pm
Ns ART PROJECT
“Falling snow turns into rain and ice melts into water”, which explains about “Usui”, one of the twenty-four seasonal divisions of a year in the old lunar calendar, has passed and there was a day when rain turned into snow and then turned into rain again around this area.
It is a textile that is like a description of rain turned from snow.
“ Usui” 2016
Material: Silk
Dye: acorn, chestnut, Lithospermum root
I wove a kimono textile called “Sanshiki” for my three-year-old daughter’s Shichigosan*.
With three colours dyed with three kinds of plant, Akane (madder), Shikon (lithospermum root) and Kusagi (harlequin glorybower) , I wove a check-pattern textile using number of threads with multiple of three. It was a textile I stuck to three numbers.