The music of color / Shimura Fukumi ; photography by Inoue Takao ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
Shimura, Fukumi, 1924- author.; Inoue, Takao, 1940-2016 photographer.; Treyvaud, Matt, translator.; Container of (work): Shimura, Fukumi, 1924- Essays. Selections.; Container of (work): Shimura, Fukumi, 1924- Lives of plants.
2019
NK9502.5.S5435 I7613 2019 (Mapit)
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Title The music of color / Shimura Fukumi ; photography by Inoue Takao ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
Author Shimura, Fukumi, 1924- author.
Uniform Title Iro o kanaderu. English
Variant Title Japanese title in colophon: Iro wo kanaderu
Edition First English edition.
ISBN 9784866580616 (paperback)
4866580615 (paperback)
Published Tokyo, Japan : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019.
Language English
Language Note Translated from Japanese.
Description 141 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number NK9502.5.S5435 I7613 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 746.092
Summary A creator in the medium of textiles, the author is known in Japan for her essays on color, nature, and the work of weaving and dyeing. This book collects some of the author's writings together with photographs of her art and the natural world that inspires it. From winter snows to spring blossoms, from the foothills of Japan's Southern Alps to the back streets of Gion, Kyoto, the author initiates the reader into areas of Japanese culture where the boundary between craft and art is blurred. The author offers insight into the sources and use of natural color, along with a glimpse into the world of Japanese textiles, from silkworm and loom to finished kimono. Travels from Basho's Deep North to the western island of Kyushu are recorded, as are accounts of the author's encounters with other figures in Japanese aesthetics such as lacquerware master Kuroda Tatsuaki and poet-critic Ōoka Makoto.--adapted from jacket.
Note "Originally published in the Japanese language under the title of Iro wo kanaderu on December 3, 1998 by Chikumashobo Ltd."--Title page verso.
Added Author Inoue, Takao, 1940-2016 photographer.
Treyvaud, Matt, translator.
Container of (work): Shimura, Fukumi, 1924- Essays. Selections.
Container of (work): Shimura, Fukumi, 1924- Lives of plants.
Series Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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The lives of plants
Receiving color
The scent of sakura
Dew from the trunk
The timbres of the wild
The Kariyasu of Mount Ibuki
Gardenia yellow
The life of indigo
The color green
On looms
Melodies of color
Mother-of-pearl
Silkworms from Heaven
Raw silk
The beauty of plain cloth
On mordants
Journey of light
A gray world
Gleanings from the sample box
Last snows in Kohoku
"Signpost" (Michishirube)
Snow, Deep North, colors of the requiem
The sakura of Fujiwara
Un, Kon, Don : luck, grit, and simplicity
Tsumugi and Kasuri
Forty-eight browns and a hundred grays
Ungen-bokashi
Murasaki Shikibu and the color purple
The colors of Gion
Three-span aprons
Kimono and obi
The art of accessorizing
The future of the kimono
Half a life in sappanwood red
Afterword: The work does the work
In sympathy with nature / Inoue Takao.

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