Exhibitions

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Tōhoku Kirigami

I went last weekend to see an exhibit here in Tokyo about a special kind of kirigami (paper-cutting), as practiced in Tōhoku, the northern area of Honshū (the main island of Japan). There’s a connection to the sacred here that I don’t understand well enough to write about, but these cut paper objects were traditionally […]

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Abe san in Tokyo

Today we went to see the papermaker Abe Shinichirō. Every year around this time he has a small exhibition at a store here in Tokyo that sells goods only from the prefecture of Shimane. I’ve been to Abe san’s studio a number of times, including two extended study sessions in 2005 and 2008. Abe san’s

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