The Embassy of Japan
cordially invites to you a lecture on
“India-Japan ties through Japanese Dyeing Technique
and the Origin of Gion Festival”
by Maestro Sachio YOSHIOKA,
Fabric Dyeing Artist from Japan
Date: |
March 23, 2007 (Friday): 6.30 p.m. |
Venue: |
India International Centre Annexe,
40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi
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Organized by: |
Embassy of Japan, Japanese Executive Committee
for Japan-India Friendship Year 2007 and India
International Centre
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Mr. Yoshioka is an acclaimed Japanese fabric dyeing artist and representative of “Some no Tsukasa Yoshioka”, a famous dyeing house in Japan. He was born in 1946 and graduated in Literature from the Waseda University in 1971. He established a publishing company, “Shikosha” in 1973 and published many art/craft books. In 1987, he succeeded to “Some no Tsukasa Yoshioka”, his parents’ home, as the fifth representative of the dye house. With ancient plants dye techniques, Mr. Yoshioka worked on textile/dyeing materials used for traditional ceremonies held by old shrines and temples including Todaiji temple, Horyuji temple, Yakushiji temple, Ise shrine and Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine.
In his lecture, Mr. Yoshioka will highlight the intricacies of the production techniques of Japanese textile design and the influence of Indian cloths on Japanese textiles.
He would also introduce the Origin of Gion Festival of Kyoto. The Gion festival is one of the three major festivals of Japan, together with the Kanda festival of Tokyo and Tenjin festival of Osaka. Very few Japanese know the fact that this Gion festival started originally to worship the Hindu deity Gosheersh, who was introduced together with Buddhism into Japan in the ancient times, with prayers to expel epidemics that raged throughout entire Kyoto during those times.
