The Seattle Symphony’s Celebrate Asia concert celebrated the tenth anniversary last night. The conductor DaYe Lin was full of life! Nishat Kahn’s sitar playing was so moving. The young composer Bochan Li’s piece was dynamic.
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Founded in 1555, Chiso has a long history of making kimono, and is well known for its beautiful Yuzen. Chiso created a short movie describing the process of Yuzen. As the movie shows, making Yuzen
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Semba Center Building in Osaka is one of my favorite shopping venues in Japan. When I was a child, my mother used to go there to find fabrics for my clothes. In those days Semba
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This is the first kimono that I had made for myself. Using my mother’s old white role of kimono fabric, I chose light green and blue as body color. The way the two colors are
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This red kimono has little dots all over. The pattern is called “Shibori” “Shibori is a Japanese manual resist dyeing technique, which produces patterns on fabric. (Wikipedia)” I found this kimono at Kyoto Art and
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Senses from Japan 2017 event starts today! Just as it’s fun to coordinate tea ceremony utensils, coordinating kimono and obi is a lot of fun as much as challenging. Although kimono basically has only one
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Kimono literally means “things to wear” in Japanese. Until Japan opened up its doors to western countries in the late 19th century, everyone wore kimono. Obviously, kimonos evolved in the course of its long history.
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