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Fumiko Satō creating a sheet of takushi/takuhonshi (captioned)

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posted on 2025-01-22, 10:47 authored by Daphne Mohajer va PesaranDaphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Fumiko Satō creating a sheet of takushi/takuhonshi, using tools that her husband, father-in-law, and she herself made or acquired. The motif is a cherry blossom (sakura). This video shwos her completing the process without speaking

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

S04

Rights owner

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Cultural group

Japanese

Participants

Fumiko Satō, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Country

Japan

Place

Shiroishi, Miyagi

Item/object

Takushi/takushonshi, embossed paper created using a method unique to Shiroishi

Techniques of production

embossed

Materials

Washi

Materials alt

Konnyaku

Cultural context/event

Interview

Location

Workshop

Temporality

Fumiiko is making the sheet in 2020 but using tools that traverse a much longer period of time, passed down from her husband Wataru and his father Chūtarō

Intent

Demonstration

Date of creation

2020-01-07

Unique ID

2019SG04-S04-0422

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