Kyoto Industrial Arts/Kyo Yu-zen Lantern

"Kyo Yuzen"....
The shine that seemed to be Kyoto was appropriated to the pukka kimono and silk cloth, and beauty was taken off by the traditional craft of the capital.
It is a Kyoto-made lantern made from "kyo-yuzen kimono".
Material feeling of "Silk" of "Kimono" and glossily peculiar ‥
It seems to be Kyoto the shine is held up in the silk cloth put out.
And, the main body part of the lantern was created with "Kyoto traditional craft".
The technology has been spirited so that workmen of Kyoto traditional crafts of the kyoto fittings, the kyoto bamboo wares, the Kiyomizu ware, and sheet copper crafts, etc. may hold up the shine in the kyo-yuzen without regrettably.

There is a sumi-e painting that express the apology and elegant simply in a Japanese art the most. "Mizu-e lantern" express "Shine" on the world of sumi-e painting which has the smell of the apology.
"Seika Tatsumoto" who has born and grow up in the beautiful scenery of old town, Kyoto and has has continued to drawn the beautiful scenery in a light picture.
The shine was held up in the coloring sumi-e painting and the picture was covered with the tradition of the Kyoto.
Settling down of simple "Light Color Sumi-e Painting" that this painter draws and the "Shine" that causes the apology ･･･
The shine of the space that only Kyoto has, is expressed.

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