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Engrave Spirit of Japanese Tradition in Love for Kawaii Fashion

Presentations of Two Youngsters from Kyoto Awed Me — 2 — The week in Seattle has indeed become in their words, a life-changing experience for the two TASK students from Kyoto, Japan. I’m relieved and happy to hear that. The daily snapshots of their visit appear on the TASK website. The highlight for me was the presentations they conducted at Seattle…

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Engrave Spirit of Japanese Tradition in Love for Kawaii Fashion
Engrave Spirit of Japanese Tradition in Love for Kawaii Fashion
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Beautiful Plates for Happy Meals

Presentations of Two Youngsters from Kyoto Awed Me — 1 — The week in Seattle has indeed become in their words, a life-changing experience for the two TASK students from Kyoto, Japan. I’m relieved and happy to hear that. The daily snapshots of their visit appear on the TASK website. My highlight was the presentations they conducted at Seattle University on…

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Beautiful Plates for Happy Meals
Beautiful Plates for Happy Meals
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Describe My Style

Day 14 of 30-Day Writing Challenge I’m trying to minimize the purchase of my clothes. I still wear a T-shirt that I bought when I went to Grand Canyon for the first and only time 32 years ago. I’ve been wearing the same jeans for over 15 years. They were brand new when I bought them…

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Describe My Style
Describe My Style
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About Me — Akemi Sagawa

Continuing my Life ver.2.0 — Hi, I’m Akemi Sagawa. Nice to meet you! My Life version 1.0 I was born and grew up in Japan, and moved to the US in August of 1994. Remember a product called Microsoft Windows 95? I was transferred from Japan to Seattle to be part of the product launch group for the Asian…

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About Me — Akemi Sagawa
About Me — Akemi Sagawa
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Completed! Now I Enjoy This Wearable Art

We Love Kimono Project 11 — Finally, the whole process of Yuzen 友禅 kimono dyeing process was complete. Now time to sew both the kimono and the obi. Mamiya-san, my kimono retailer, said that ideally I should see the final status of the kimono and obi fabric before they were sewn respectively. He also told me…

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Completed! Now I Enjoy This Wearable Art
Completed! Now I Enjoy This Wearable Art
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·Oct 23

Kinsai 金彩 and Embroidery 刺繍: Yuzen’s Last Process

We Love Kimono Project 10 — The dyeing process is over, but the Yuzen 友禅 process is not complete yet, said Mamiya-san, my kimono retailer. What else is there, you may wonder. So did I. According to Kosaka-san, the kimono maker, there are two more processes. One is Kinsai 金彩, and the other is Shishu 刺繍. …

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Kinsai 金彩 and Embroidery 刺繍: Yuzen’s Last Process
Kinsai 金彩 and Embroidery 刺繍: Yuzen’s Last Process
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·Oct 9

Irosashi 色挿し — Freehand Dyeing

We Love Kimono Project 9 — The Process of Dyeing a Kimono Jizome 地染, the process of dyeing the kimono fabric with the base color, is complete. The Fuse-nori 伏糊, the paste applied onto the designs to resist the base color to penetrate the fabric, has been washed away. The Itome 糸目, the finely drawn design, is still intact on the fabric…

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Irosashi 色挿し — Freehand Dyeing
Irosashi 色挿し — Freehand Dyeing
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·Oct 3

Fuse Nori 伏糊 and Jizome 地染 — Techniques of Dyeing Kimono Fabric

We Love Kimono Project 8 — Fuse-nori 伏糊: Covering with paste Once the Itome-oki 糸目置 is complete, the craftsman moves on to the process called fuse-nori 伏糊.

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Fuse Nori 伏糊 and Jizome 地染 — Techniques of Dyeing Kimono Fabric
Fuse Nori 伏糊 and Jizome 地染 — Techniques of Dyeing Kimono Fabric
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Weeds & Wildflowers

·Oct 3

My Neighbor Cat Jorge, The Killer

Cruel Truth of Nature — Jorge is a male cat of my neighbor. He is a survivor. He used to be an explorer. For days, he would not come home. Turned out he had a few other families to visit and get fed from. Jorge had a little sister cat, Marley. In contrast to Jorge…

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My Neighbor Cat Jorge, The Killer
My Neighbor Cat Jorge, The Killer
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·Sep 29

Tegaki Yuzen 手描友禅 Process — How Kimono is Temporarily Sewn to be Dyed

We Love Kimono Project 7 — With the Medashi of my Obi complete, Kosaka-san, the kimono maker using Tegaki Yuzen, a hand-dyeing method, started his work of making my kimono. Tegaki Yuzen 手描き友禅 is a resist-dyeing technique that became fashionable at the end of the seventeenth century in Japan. Applying paste dye directly to fabric to…

Kimono

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Tegaki Yuzen 手描友禅 Process — How Kimono is Temporily Sewn to be Dyed
Tegaki Yuzen 手描友禅 Process — How Kimono is Temporily Sewn to be Dyed
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Akemi Sagawa

Akemi Sagawa

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Formerly a tech entrepreneur, now a voluntary cultural ambassador of Japan. Founder of Five Senses Foundation (fivesensesfoundation.org). akemisagawa.com

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