Happy Hina Matsuri! Today is the Doll Festival (or Girls’ Day) in Japan. It’s a traditional festival during which families pray for the health and happiness of their female children. Celebration of Hina Matsuri consists of an elaborate display of royal court dolls 🎎 and a wide variety of colourful traditional food. Wishing girls around the world a happy and healthy life 💖
Continue readingHappy Luna New Year! Do you know?: Japan used to adopt the Lunisolar Calendar and celebrated Shogatsu the same time as the rest of East Asia.
Continue readingBeing the first post of 2022, we wish everyone a wonderful year ahead. あけましておめでとう!
Continue readingIt’s been two tough years, we wish you all a very merry Christmas.
See you again after the holiday!
Continue readingIt’s almost Christmas and New Year, and I think a clean at the studio is needed. My table is covered with flowers and half-finished work. I am sure having a tidy table is going to help me work better.
Continue readingBefore I begin, I would like to express my gratitude to Miss Tomomi Yamashita from Knot Japan, who provided valuable information on the history of Tsumami-Zaiku, as well as much needed support to fellow Tsumami-Zaiku artists around the world. When I began my artistic journey of Tsumami-Zaiku in early 2016, I could not find much information about the craft. Living in the UK, I didn’t have access to lessons or textbooks, so I learnt the…
Continue reading18th – 19th May 2019
11:00 to 18:00
Fly DSA Arena, Broughton Ln, Sheffield S9 2DF
Continue readingCome and learn how to create Tsumami Kanzashi Geisha inspired accessories with the talented Cora from Takara Crafts.
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Date: 16th September, 2017
Time: 17:00 to 19:30
Address: SEW IN THE CITY, 119 West Bar, S3 8PT Sheffield
Continue readingWhen talking about Japan, what image does it give you? Cities of neon lightings? Or traditional shrines and Torii gates? Of course, both can represent Japan. It’s a big country after all (Psst, it’s bigger than the whole of the UK). But to me, there is another side of Japan that I really like and often overlooked by other people. It’s the hybrid of Western and Japanese ideas. Wayo Secchu: Combining the West and the…
Continue readingJourney restarted It has been a very long time since I wrote anything here. I wish I could do a bit more work on the website but I’m not exactly good at writing. I have been using Instagram and Facebook to showcase my work because they are more picture-orientated, but I guess it is also important to have a website of ourselves in case anything goes wrong. I guess it will be easier for me…
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