The music of color /
"A startlingly original creator in the medium of textiles, Living National Treasure Shimura Fukumi is also well known in Japan for her essays on color, nature, and the work of weaving and dyeing. 'The Music of Color' collects some of Shimura's most insightful writing together wit...
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| Language: | English Japanese |
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Tokyo :
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,
2019.
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | Japan library
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Table of Contents:
- 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.