Kyoto Gion festival has been continued by the rich merchants and citizen with extraordinary strong will since ancient period. “Kyoto” is a world-wide brand to gather many visitors from domestic and abroad areas. And, this is a good opportunity for young people to wear “YUKATA Kimono” which is cotton made in summer season.
I had visited for study to “Sanjyo Workshop of WAKOSYA” near the Museum of Kyoto which is an embroidery restoration atelier. The artist was working to cut off the disused padding fabric. Beautiful shiny embroidery yarns, spinning wheels and stitching sample were beside her. Some elaborate gorgeous embroidery works such as a heavenly maiden/a Chinese phoenix, happy fowls by artist Jyakucyu Itoh were shown, emphasizing ancient skillful artisan workmanship. The faint away delicate hand-made embroidery could be revived lively. I was impressed and sympathized with this artisan spirit. I am also absorbed in remaking KIMONO to KIMONO DRESS because of showing the beautiful Kimono fabric in future.
This atelier is famous for the restoration of decorations on Gion Festival wagon. They were introduced one of the works on newspaper.
And I went to the exhibition of UKIYOE such as HOKUSAI/HIROSHIGE/UTAMARO etc. Many UKIYOE are not in Japan and give some influence to famous artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Foreign people can evaluate the Japanese traditional beauty ?
I realized the two different footsteps of Japanese art in one day. I feel complicated ~~~
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