生きている工芸 Ikiteiru kōgei (Living craft)
✿ You are invited to our launches in Kyoto 21/2 and Kanazawa 24/2.
Quarterly essay
- 🎧 Of time and the city by Kathryn Bird and Ross Gibson
Kyoto
- Intuitive thread by Eloise Rapp
- Itohen universe: A new kimono workshop by Namiko Tatezaki
- Swords of Kyoto: How weapons became cultural treasures by Sachiko Tamashige
- From Venice to Kyoto: Glass reflections of obi under the moonlight by Shoko Aono
- The glittering costumes of Ningyo-Joruri: A puppetry revival project by Miki Hanafusa 🇯🇵
- Sodeisha: Object ceramics from Kyoto to Australia by Kevin White 🇯🇵
- Remembering when the world came to Kyoto in 1978 by Toshio OHI Chozaemon XI and Merran Esson 🇯🇵
- Kyoto Artisan Concierge: Craft and the experience economy by Kevin Murray 🇯🇵
- Kougie now – Craft experience at Hotel Kanra Kyoto by Shingo Yamasaki
- The art of repair: The subtle kintsugi of Keiko Ikoma by Ryan Leahey
Kōgei in Japan
- Ainu textiles: Cloth weighted with affection and prayer by ann-elise lewallen and Kaizawa Tamami 🇯🇵
- Kōgei Hackathon: Toyama transforms craft by Sari Hayashiguchi
- Shimenawa: Hidden meanings behind the twisted ropes at Izumo Taisha by Sayumi Yokouchi
- Journey to Teshima by Gary Warner
- Itazu Litho-Grafik (板津石版画工房): The Stone Letter Project by Neilton Clarke
- Ceramic art from Gallery VOICE by Tomoko Kawakami
- Eucalypt meets indigo in Kanazawa – with gold leaf by Siri Hayes
Kōgei elsewhere
- Hagi ceramics and everyday life by Yoko Ozawa, Yoko Akama
- Folding Indigo: Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser by Caren Florance
- Works never seen before in this world by Mitsuo Shoji
- Why you should drink saké hot by Masahiro and Yumi Takahashi
- Plant and punk and zen and Slow Art by Chaco Kato
- Wara art from Niigata to York: Japan-inspired hay sculptures by Jenny Garroun and Ilsa Bennion 🇯🇵
- From Kyoto to Brunswick: The Mr Kitly story by Bree Claffey
- Shibari on the Strathbogie Ranges: The art of Japanese rock knotting by Anne Newton
- From Brazil to Japan: In search of the unknown craftsperson by Silvia Sasaoka
- Throwing shadows from the sunSpacecraft’s botanical prints by Eugenia Lim 🇯🇵
- Tsukumogami: The faithful tool (Online exhibition) Gary Warner
Elsewhere
- Women’s Wealth Project: Biruko and Tuhu hoods by Ruth McDougall and Sana Balai
- Louiseann King ✿ Solis by Roger Saddington