Portraying Mingei Stories #2 It was “pricing.” As I now write this story, I see and interpret the process of pricing as...
Female Creators
In Rave of Handmade
Handmade products are valued more than ever. For its rarity… possibly. But perhaps more than just the scarcity value. We humans...
Introducing the Concept on the Other Side Of Wabi-Sabi
Tips for Grounding and Growing Thick Bones It doesn’t take tea or Zen master to showcase a seamless flow of sophisticated...
The Job She Hated the Most…?
As I now write this story, I see and interpret the process of pricing as “claiming self-value.” How many of us are good at it?
In Rave of Handmade
In Rave of Handmade
Introducing the Concept on the Other Side Of Wabi-Sabi
Tips for Grounding and Growing Thick Bones It doesn’t take tea or Zen master to showcase a seamless flow of sophisticated movements. I’ve seen it in almost all of the craftsmen I’ve met, in the way they use their hands and bodies at work. These movements are...
A Little Prayer Sewn In
The act of sewing is, or used to be, universal. It was a way to make most of the resources we had a limited access to.
As most of us are now able to purchase clean, new clothes cheaply, the act of mending and stitching doesn’t seem to make sense at least in terms of efficiency.
Use Good Tools, My Mother Said.
Where to Place Money and Heart “Use good tools,” she said, in a frustrated manner. It was a pair of scissors, with one handle missing. I’d been using it ever since I was in elementary school. My family went on a trip to see our uncle and aunt for a summer holiday in...
Better to be heard than touched…?
Sensual sound of kinuzure Let our imagination fly free while listening to this. What did you see? A court lady taking off one of many layers of kimono…? Then you have a superpower! It was actually Norio Arai, rolling up almost 13-metre-long fine silk fabric...
The voice inside her head said ”I don’t want to go back” … and she didn’t.
Where the biggest change takes place A phrase used in an astrology reading like “a big change is coming for you” stirs the image of an external force coming to uproot me from my everyday life to unknown territory. It does sound exciting. I would want to know how and...
Touch Me
Shining like baby skin First, I want you to touch me. The slick, silk-like surface smoothed by thousands of touches, brushstrokes, and… whetstones. I’m speaking of the urushiware lacquered by Senro Sato. I don’t know how many Japanese households use real...