2022-06-03
The renewal of our website has finally finished.
We’d like to introduce new information, which we could not inform you about before.
Eight of our kyo-katagami were featured in the January 2020 issue of “Monthly A WORLD OF WONDERS” -Happy and Fun Edo Patterns- by Kumagai Hiroto (illustrations and text) published by Fukuinkan.
The author, Mr. Kumagai Hiroto, is a book designer.
He collects and researches “wasarasa(Japanese chintz) and katagami(Japanese pattern papers) and also gives lectures on them.
I met him for the first time when I was invited as a panelist at the KATAGAMI Style exhibition commemorative symposium held at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in the fall of 2012.
As you feel from this picture book, he has a warm personality.
This is the cover of “Monthly A WORLD OF WONDERS”. It is studded with pictures by Mr. Kumagai.
This is “Yakko kites”. （ｐ7）
This is a design of “Hinamatsuri(Doll festival)”. (p9，ｐ3)
There are 6 pictures on this page. (p18，ｐ19)
This is “Octopus”.
Some of them are trying to get into the octopus pots. （1/6）
This is a motif of “fart”.
It is also called “fart battle”. （2/6）
This is a “child’s game”. （3/6）
This is a “battle between a monkey and a crab”．
Two different designs on the same theme. (4/6，5/6)
（Refer also to ｐ3）
This is a design of “Kitsune no Yomeiri (Wedding of the Fox). （6/6）