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Continuously, “Acknowledging the Upstream (in Sashiko)” will be one of the main

atsushijp, 2024年1月4日

Continuously, “Acknowledging the Upstream (in Sashiko)” will be one of the main messages in 2024. To clarify it better, I sometimes write a post (indirectly) accusing those who may have copied Unshin from our videos/posts. Please don’t get me wrong. I am NOT accusing anyone for “copying”. I say [copy it] in the videos. Copying itself is fine. Copying while ignoring the upstream (although they know where it comes from) are the destroyer of culture.
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Before 2016, the videos of Sashiko’s Unshin you see today were non-existent. Today, we can find many videos in non-Japanese language introducing Unshin with middle finger & round (metal) thimble as if it is “the answer” for Sashiko & its Unshin. Interestingly, not so many uploaded in Japanese. The Unshin I share is NOT the answer for Sashiko. There are many other types of Unshin, and there are many Sashiko artisans who have been doing Sashiko for decades, like 50 years.
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I never teach Sashiko saying [What I teach is the “answer”] or “one stop for all”. What I teach is just a station to start a Sashiko Journey. Those who upload the “Copied Unshin” say they taught themselves, by doing so they are missing a very important cultural part of Sashiko.
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In Japan, there are so many types of Unshin. There are so many Sashiko Artisans with their own practice & style in Japan. I respect them sincerely, and I want to be respectful to them, too. Please help us to identify the upstream. There are many stories & people behind the word, “Sashiko”.
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正直な所、2016年に運針動画を初めて投稿した際は、これほどまでに中指と皿付き指貫の運針動画が英語圏で蔓延することは想像してませんでした。コピーされる覚悟でやってるし、真似して欲しい(見て学んでほしい)と言いながらの活動なので本望っちゃ本望なのですが、同時にここまで無視されるとも思ってませんでした。このご時世だからだとは思うのですが、 「どこから学んだか・何を参考にしたか」は記載されていないのが殆どです。
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日本の方の運針動画だったらわかるんです。中指で運針してた地域もあるだろうし。でも蔓延している動画の中で日本語でのものは極少数。日本語のもあっても最近刺し子を始めたんだろうなぁという感じのものばかり。長年刺し子をされていらっしゃる方の動画には、それぞれのご自身の「型」で運針をされていて、「やっぱり運針には様々な型があるよなぁ」と思うのです。
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刺し子だけに起こっていることではありません。この西洋の「元を記さないコピー」の一番の問題は、「それが(刺し子の)正解だ」として紹介されること。日本人は誰も言っていない「刺し子の正解」が、勝手に英語圏で広まることが一番嫌なのです。しかも、尊敬する日本の方々の運針の型が蔑ろにされる形で。
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今年は声を上げていきます。日本人っぽく「波風立てたくないしなぁ」と遠慮してた部分もあるのですが、正解を断定されること(他を間違いとすること)だけは許せないのでね。
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2024-01-04 06:25:59




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    2024年1月3日 at 11:23 PM

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