Modern society lauds ladies’ fashion to be the fastest-moving, biggest and most lucrative of all industries. Season after season, style after style, time after time. Do you know that women and their ingenuity have been the driving force behind this industry that grows the money and manner since the feudal times? We’re talking about Japan…

As society modernizes and globalization speeds up, we find ourselves discussing this topic more often than ever before. What place will tradition, and the traditional ways of living and creating, have now in the world, amidst continuing technological advancement and societal development? I question in terms of the artistic preservation of tsumami zaiku, and kanzashi,…

The very essence of ‘tsumami zaiku (摘み細工)’ lies in the artisan’s ability to arrive at intricately-detailed works-of-art out of squares of fabric that have been cut out to precise measurement. The Japanese term ‘zaiku (細工)’ delineates the amount of detail and attentiveness involved in the crafting process while true refinement happens right at the fingertips…