Fumiko Satō describing a poem about kamiko, which has been frottaged from a local memorial stone in Shiroishi. The poem is a haiku by 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694), and reads as follows:
A shimmer of warm air
Rises up from the shoulder
Of my paper kimono
かげろふの我が肩に立つ紙子かな
kagerō no waga kata ni tatsu kamiko kana
Fumiko Satō describes a poem about kamiko, and makes the connection between the practice of collecting frottaged artowrks from important stone monuments as the starting point for the practice of creating 3D embossed paper cloth, which is a technique particular to Shiroishi and her family.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
S09
Rights owner
Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Cultural group
Japanese
Participants
Fumiko Satō, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Country
Japan
Place
Shiroishi, Miyagi
Item/object
Frottage/rubbing (takuhonshi/takushi) of a memorial stone
Techniques of production
Frottaged
Materials
Washi
Cultural context/event
Interview
Location
Workshop
Temporality
The poem is a haiku by 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694). Frottaged paper created mid 20th-century (paper by Tadao Endō and Frottage (takuhon) by Wataru Satō)