8, November, 2014 @Tokyo University of Agriculture
Sponsored by Tokyo University of Agriculture Open Lecture
At the Tokyo University of Agriculture Open Lecture, I took charge of one of the three courses entitled “Plants and Nature supporting Life and Way of Living Reconsidering housing, food, clothing and medicine”.
Focusing on the early days of dyeing with plants, I let the participants experience the primal dyeing process by rubbing, and herbal medicine, which is still a typical plants dye such as Akane (madder), Shikon (lithospermum root), Kihada (amur cork tree) and Kuchinashi (cape jasmine).
And at the end, we dyed with “Kusagi” (harlequin glorybower) that bear berries in the campus at this time of the season.
It is not easy to collect enough berry of Kusagi for everyone to dye with it, and it was because of at Tokyo University of Agriculture with abundant plants that made it possible.
