Thank you for watching another Sashiko Live Streaming today on Friday. I try my best to be honest in this account. I used to be “silent” to be liked, but “no more silence” to pass down what we are proud of.
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One may face “inconvenient facts” in reading/listening to what I say. However, when they read enough, they should find out that I am NOT excluding others. In fact, opposite. I am welcoming. To be straight to the point, I am just asking for a bit of respect as a human being. I try to understand them as a human (not something I can just block and ignore). I want you to think of me as a human being as well – not Alexa in Amazon devices or Google Browser who answers any questions without “Please” and “Thank you”.
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After all, I believe they are here because they are interested in “Sashiko”. Sashiko is a form of hand-stitching. Sashiko is beautiful because it is done by “humans”. We live in such a different world after the Internet. However, let’s keep thinking (respecting) who we are as human being, each other.
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今週の配信もありがとうございました。日本語の配信のアーカイブがインスタグラム上で見つからないので、アーカイブはYouTubeにてご覧頂けましたら幸いです。1時間というのが何かあるんだろうか……調べてみます。
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英語で配信をすると、毎回のように、「質問だけ投げて、その後に何も音沙汰がない人」がいます。「こんにちは」もなければ、「ありがとう」もないんです。この世の中、そういう人の方が多いのかもしれませんが、僕がグーグルでもAmazonのアレクサでもないことだけは今後も主張していかなきゃなと思うんです。詰まるところ、刺し子の手仕事で伝えたいことって、そういう思いやり(想像力)の大切さだと思うので。表面的な情報と綺麗なデザインだけ欲しいのであれば、ウェブで調べて印刷すればいいだけです。それをせず刺し子まで辿り着いてくれる人には、尚更、少しくらい厳しいことを言っても、「人間らしさの素晴らしさ」を伝えていきたいと思っています。
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2020-10-23 14:33:26

What beautiful fabric in the photo. Amazing how the stitching seems to have become part of the cloth, not standing out in a shining lead role, but taking a more humble role, only there for those who have eyes to see it.
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I am so very grateful that you share yourself as you do. It’s always one of my favorite things, when a person does that. Also, of course, the beauty of sashiko in its fullest meaning.
Very well written!
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