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Sumi-e

  • Emphasis is placed on the beauty of each individual stroke of the brush
  • “writing a painting” and “painting a poem.”

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Origin

Yuzen

  • Invented in 17th century, Kyoto. Often referred to as Kyo Yuzen
  • A paste resist(nori) dyeing technique
  • the term yuzen was derived from the name of a popular fan designer in Kyoto, named Miyazaki Yuzen.
  • Origin
  • History
  • Concept - main theme
  • Sumi-e
  • Yuzen dyeing techniques
  • Katazome
  • Shibori
  • Paint
  • Silk originated from India and China
  • Both Japan and China began using silk for artistic means roughly at the same time - 8th century CE.

Kata-yuzen and Tegaki-yuzen

  • Tegaki-yuzen (hand painting ): a pattern is outlined by resist paint and shaded with color; background painted with hiki-zome (application of dye by brush)
  • Kata-yuzen (stencil dyeing):synthetic dyes could be mixed with the starch paste that had formerly been used only for resisting dyes on the fabric.
  • Background dyed with the paste (shigoki)
  • Invented by Hirose Jisuke

Main themes

  • Early paintings - historical events or heroes.
  • Nature: birds, flowers, wildlife, mountains, trees and bamboo.
  • Mostly used for kimono designs

History

  • Early Japanese silk paintings were done with black ink or paint, and were generally monochromatic.
  • From 14th century color is applied opening the gates for the inventions of various painting techniques, other than sumi-e

Katazome

  • Stencil dyeing technique
  • Rice paste is pressed through the elaborately cut, heavy, oiled stencils onto the fabric; then after drying, the fabrics are immersed in the dye pots.

Paint

  • At first only five basic colors were used: indigo,crimson, chrome yellow, dark green, and royal purple.
  • The pigments were derived from plants and minerals.

Kanoko shibori

  • Binding sections of cloth and securing with thread to achieve the desired pattern

Miura shibori

  • A hook and needle is used to pluck sections of cloth and a thread is looped around each section twice.

Shibori

Arashi shibori

  • The cloth is wrapped on a diagonal around a pole, tightly bound by wrapping thread up and down the pole, and scrunched.
  • "Arashi" is the Japanese word for storm.

Kumo shibori

  • spider design
  • First known fabric dyed using shibori - 8th century
  • Tie-dye technique
  • There are six major known Shibori techniques: Kanoko, Miura, Kumo, Nui, Arashi and Itajime.

Tsujigahana

Itajime shibori

  • shaped-resist technique.
  • Traditionally, the cloth is sandwiched between two pieces of wood, which are held in place with string.

Nui shibori

  • a stitching technique that involves simply stitching the cloth and pulling the threads tight to gather the fabric.

Japanese silk painting techniques

Bibliography

  • http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1474&context=tsaconf
  • http://www.marlamallett.com/k_design.htm
  • http://kiteastman.com/what-is-katazome-new/
  • http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/12.134.10
  • http://www.sumiesociety.org/whatissumie.php
  • http://www.miyakomesse.jp/fureaika/about_eng.php
  • http://www.thekubotacollection.com/en/collection-highlights/itchiku-kubota-art-museum-japan
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