Photos and Writings by Yuko Kimura
We took a shinkansen-bullet train to get to Odawara and visited Atsumi Murata's studio. She is an calligrapher and papermaker.
In the process of making paper, Atsumi pours sumi ink between the thin layers of washi pulp.
"Behind the Mountains in Kyoto"
"Rabbit"
After having a nice lunch with Mr.& Mrs. Murata, we took a local train to get to Yugawara, famous town for hot springs. We visited Masahiko Takada's Katazome studio. He was one of the apprentices of Serizawa Keisuke. He worked with him for about 10 years and then, he became an independent Katazome artist.
Masahiko Takada and his wife, showing us his collections of Serizawa Katazome works.
Masahiko Takada, standing in front of his Katazome on Noren fabric
His original Katazome stencil paper
In front of old photographs of Keisuke Serizawa and himself working together
Michael Verne, learning the Katazome technique from Masahiko Takada at the Serizawa studio in 1982 which was Michael's first visit to Japan
brushes for Katazome
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