the other as I was reporting on the Tea Festival in kanaya, Shimada City, I was invited by a local to visit a special art exhibition privately held by a local citizen!
I understood at once it was about dye works when I found the noren/のれん/entrance curtain!
Shizuoka Prefecture is famous for many dye works artists including Keisuke Serizawa and his disciples!
The artist name was Koutarou Mizuno/水野光太郎!
Koutarou Mizuno was actually born in kanaya in 1911!
he graduated from the Japan university industrial studies Faculty in Architecture in 1932.
He was very active in teaching in many national schools until 1977 and departed from this world in 1992 aat the age of 81
After a fateful meeting with wood block print artist shigeru kuriyama/栗山茂 in 1950 he became an active dye-work artist from 1951 until his last days!
The artist’s sketchbook!
The initial dye works!
The artist kept his passion alive till his last days!
Vegetable Noren!
fruit noren!
Eggplant noren!
Daikon noren!
The exhibition included other dye works such as these fruit!
Vase noren!
Flower kimono!
Flowers and plants partition!
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