I occasionally wonder… “Don’t you feel sad when someone summarizes your culture

I occasionally wonder… “Don’t you feel sad when someone summarizes your culture in one sentence?” What if the “someone” is from outside of your culture? What if the culture is strongly rooted in your whole life? 

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I am very happy to see Sashiko getting so popular. A quick answer is very tempting to enjoy it. I am not denying the quick teaching of how to. What I am asking is to just keep learning. The speed/efficiency/ isn’t going to transmit everything in our life. “Boro is a mending technique” is one of the statements that make me sad. Yes, “Boro” has a lot of mending on it. Yes, Boro is beautiful. Yes, someone probably is teaching so. However, there are also many stories on the piece of Boro.

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This Jacket is “To-Be-Boro”. Keiko is working on it. The 1st photo – Mainly white side is “showing-side (Outside)”. The 2nd photo, more colorful & patched one, is the “hiding-side (inside)”. I understand you like the “inside” to be “outside” because of how it looks. However, there are stories why we would do this. Without the stories, just “wonderful technique” will wipe away the cultural aspect of “something important” to us.

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最近恵子さんと話すことが増えました。昨日の投稿の後も、「ばあちゃん思い出して泣いちゃったよ」と。僕以上に、お互い支え合っていた二人だから尚更です。「今年作ってる襤褸どうするの？」と聞いたら、「淳が着てくれるように作ってるよ」と。「まだ未完成だけど、後は淳が刺せばいい」っと（笑）

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僕が引き継ぐ襤褸であるならば、写真載っけちゃえということで、全体像です。これまでも小出しにしてきましたが、恵子さんの能力を実感できる作品だと思います。刺し子の技術だけじゃありません。能力とは、布と会話する能力であり。布を通して過去と会話するチカラです。「刺し子の技術」だけ上達してもずーっと刺し続ける人は少ない。でも、一生刺し子をする人はいる。僕はまだ辿り着けていませんが、続けた人だけが見える景色があるんだろうなと思っています。

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2020-11-13 14:25:25

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