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↑Click images to jump to the slideshow. Silk Fabric, Traditional Craft Forms series no.78 Takeshi Katsuyama, a producer of Nishijin Weaving, is stickler for domestically-produced silk Kimonos. He grows original species’ silkworms and makes mulberry fields for feeding. He is also particular about handmade process: spinning threads from cocoons, weaving using with high looms. In [...]
↑Click the image to jump to the slideshow. Teapot, Traditional Craft Forms series no.79, AXIS April (vol.138) Yamada Jozan IV. Tokoname.
At noon of 15th August 1945, Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya photographed the sun immediately after Emperor’s Hirohito, accepting the Potsdam Declaration, radio broadcast. The meridian sun – 65 years after.
↑Click the image to jump to the slide show. Kabuki Wigs, Takumi (Traditional Craft Forms) no.86, AXIS June 2010 (vol.145) Kabuki Wigs are much different from ordinary wigs, either its material or process and techniques. An amature is made of copper to fix each one of actors’ heads, yak’s hairs and/or human’s hairs are implanted, [...]
↑Click the image, jump to the slideshow. Real Ukiyo-e printing is seen in itself depth and thickness. Ukiyo-e is not flat tone, it is like a vertical gradation in a thickness of the handmade Japanese paper that makes the print deep tone. Sharaku: The actor Otani Oniji III as Edobei Hokusai: Red Fuji Hiroshige: Jumantsubo [...]
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed [...]
KARESANSUI (Dry Landscape) of Ryoanji, Kyoto. The blossom of weeping cherry tree disturbs quiet meditation.
Antoni Gaudi, Casa Batllo 1904-1906, Stair case I have been recovering images data from broken 500GB HD in few days. It might have been successfully restoring 80% of data. Remaining 20% of images are gone. This is one of restoring images.
Click above picture to jump to the slideshow. Mountain Tea, Traditional Craft Forms series no. 81. Look the photograph before reading this caption. What do you think semi-farming tea shrubs in the steep slope of the rocky mountain? This is a species of wild tea which grows from seed which differs from ordinary tea farms. [...]
Click on the picture to start slide show. Stanislav Libensky (1921-2002) world-renowned Czech glass artist. Most of his life he worked with his wife and artistic collaborator Jaroslava Brychtova (1924-). In collaboration they were leaders of contemporary glass art. (Although I’ve photographed the couple, in this slideshow only Stanislav Libensky has been appeared.) Stanislav Libensky [...]
↑Click the image to jump to slideshow. Mazda’s Wenkel (Rotary) Engine, “Traditional Craft Form” or Masters’ work no.84,AXIS vol.143 2010 Feb. Why does we have covered the Wenkel (Rotary) Engine for the story of “traditional craft forms” series? Because, the Wenkel (Rotary) Engine has been making by the skillful craftsmen. I thought you might understand [...]
Temperate Rainforest along by Milford Track. http://www.ultimatehikes.co.nz/mt_home.asp
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