Calendar 1988

Description

This 1988 calendar designed by Keisuke Serizawa is made up of twelve paper stencil prints packaged in a decorative cardboard folder with a stenciled label showing the year and Serizawa's "se" (せ) hexagonal seal. The stenciled prints and label pasted on the folder are done in Serizawa's katazome style perfected in the wake of WWII material shortages forcing him to look for alternatives to textiles to print his stencil dyed designs. Serizawa’s stencils were later named kataezome to reinforce the pictorial nature of his work. Serizawa must have taken delight each year in combining disparate design elements into a mass-produced cohesive calendar.

This 1988 calendar is one of the few over the years using a horizontal rather than vertical orientation.

About Keisuke Serizawa's Katazome Calendars

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“Important Intangible Cultural Property”

About Keisuke Serizawa's Katazome Calendars

The katazome (stencil-dyeing) calendars, which have been produced for about forty years since Showa 20 (1945), hold an important position among the numerous works dyed on Japanese paper by Keisuke Serizawa.

The early versions of these calendars were produced in limited numbers and are rarely seen. To honor his legacy, we have created new editions using materials and techniques nearly identical to those used in the early years, including the stencils, dyes, and Japanese paper.

We hope you will enjoy the art of Serizawa, which was born from his research into traditional Japanese katazome and Okinawan bingata dyeing, as well as his innate talent for creating patterns and his exceptional sense of color.

重要無文化財

芹沢銈介の型染カレンダーについて

昭和二十年よりこの方、約四十年の間続けられて来ました型染カレンダーは、芹沢銈介の和紙に染められた数多い作品群の中でも重要な位置を占めます。

その初期のものは製作部数も少なく、人目に觸れることもなくなっていますので、その遺志を継ぎまして型も染も和紙も初期に等しい材料と技法で製作致しました。

日本古来の型染と琉球の紅型染を研究され、模様を生み出す天分と色調への優れた感覚によって生み出された芹沢芸術を、お楽しみいただければ幸甚です。