Day two of my week with Chiso, where I visited a Kyo Yuzen resist craftsman, an Oke Shibori craftsman and a Shibori dye factory.
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12 November: Itchiku Kubota Art Museum, Kawaguchi, Japan
in WCMT 2017
From Tokyo I took several trains out to one of the five famed Mount Fuji lakes – Kawaguchi. The first evening I made my way up via a cable car to view Mount Fuji against a clear sunset sky, but I was there particularly to see the work of Kimono artist Itchiku Kubota (1917-2003).
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