I visited a 135 year old kimono store.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Join the tea time with the owner of a 135 year old kimono store. You will learn more about kimono dyes and weaves and their origins, different fibers, and how kimono was worn in history.
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His grandmother sounds like she was an amazing character with great style. I’d love to see examples what that casual, everyday “sloppy” style looked like. I think it would help take some of the pressure of trying to achieve “perfect” kitsuke. 😊
His shop is absolutely beautiful. If I make it to Osaka I will have to find it.
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From the look of the surroundings I think it might be within Shinsaibashisuji, it's an amazing shopping street and you wouldn't want to miss it!
I grew up with my mom sewing / doing embroidery, so we spent tons of time in quilt stores (USA). I grew up running my hands over all the different fabrics and weaves, and I just love all the different textures. (I’m getting caught up on videos as it wasn’t giving me notifications.)
It was so much fun listening to the stories!
I loved all the stories about his grandmother! The discussion about the different types of fabric was super interesting, so many fibers and weaves!
Hi! I am fascinated by the idea of wearing a kimono sloppily or neatly and would love to se what the difference is. Always enjoyable to watch your videos and so much to learn! As an American, I also like learning more about Japan as well! Take care and be well! Kelly
Thank you! Loved everything about this video, especially the stories about his grandmother. I agree with Robyn M, I would also like what a casual "sloppy" style looks like. またね！
When the "Let's come to an end" came I was so surprised!! "Already?" was I thinking... He seems passionate while not being overly demonstrative. Very peaceful, he mentioned that one aspect of kimono that I am working on: a kimono is literally "a thing to wear", so either worn sloppily or neatly depending on the occasion. I advocate for kimono to be a daily outfit.
I am already looking forward to the next conversation haha Good job on the subtitles job!! Thank you for bringing such a peaceful casual time to me! Will add this location to my next Osaka trip ;)
So good! I loved his passion and knowledge. I could listen for hours about his grandmother. That's really special that he took over his family business. Interview more friends Billy!
As much as COVID allows me, but more videos like this are definitely planned (I’ve also already made a few, you probably want to check out)
Such a charming conversation! It was over too soon, I could have listened to you two all day! Thank you!
Right, so fluid and authentic and heartfelt, I really loved it.
What a fascinating man to listen to I hope you film with him again. His Grandmother sounded amazing.
I could listen to Nakura-san 24/7!! His knowledge is marvelous 😭✨ How about filming another video with him showing the different ways people were wearing their kimonos? That'd be amazing!
Listening/reading you two nerding out over kimono is fun lol.
Wonderful conversation! My mom started teaching me to sew when I was about 9 years old, and our family moved to Japan. I loved the fabric, notions and bead stores - there were so many! Discovering new fabrics is fascinating, as I learned when I traveled to Thailand and Myanmar in 2005. Lotus stalk silk making in Myanmar was so incredibly interesting. I still collect fabrics today, especially old Japanese fabrics. I've kept a long length of deep purple Chinese embroidered silk since 1984 intact because I just cannot bear to cut it; I finally used it as a wall tapestry.
I enjoyed this video very much. Domo Arigato and Aloha from Hawaii ☀️🌈🌊🏝🌴🌺💖
It is easy to see how you both wholeheartedly love kimonos, kimono fabrics, different style and the history of kimono.👘💖 I absolutely enjoyed this video and I learned many new things from this, thank you!
Thanks, my dear ❤️❤️
The fabrics had me all bouncy and just going half nuts with glee. So manyamaaaaazing patterns and weaves. Obi is becoming more and more interesting to me, and this was so enlightning and fun to watch. Thank you for educati g us in such a relaxed and comfortable segtting.
Lately I have been buying and using a lot of local swedish designers fabric and designs. Some of them are really pretty to make into obi.
Oh! Swedish designs will turn into great obis!
All the talk about hemp reminded me of the first time I held a hemp blend fabric in my hand. I'd only seen it in rope, when it's quite rough and unrefined, but the piece of clothing was a very fine cotton/hemp knit, and I had to check the label several times to make sure it wasn't a cotton/poly blend, it was sooooo soft, and felt far too smooth to be just plant fiber.
I realize this post is almost a year old, but I just found your channel. This was fascinating! Thank you❣
This was such a huge insight into the history of kimono, I have huge respect for Nakura-san and his shop. This is wonderful!
As someone who is learning to tapestry weave, this journey through history is fascinating. Thank you for sharing this.
I love learning about all these different crafting methods and how they came about, because I always end up finding parallels where widely different people ended up doing almost the same thing. That Indian patchwork sashiko obi strongly reminds me of designs from my grandma's crazy quilting books, from as far back as the 1800's. And it makes sense because both styles came from making functional pieces from little scraps of fabric and adding lots of artistic reinforcing stitches!
The loss of weaving techniques is happening all over the world. It's a result of machine weaving. Turns out, machines can't actually handle thread as well as human hands can and because of that a lot of the more intricate and finer weaves (like the ones that would produce translucent wool, or the older tight linen weaves) are disappearing.
Just lovely - love hearing two enthusiasts share their fun
I'm surprised when my country was mentioned by him. Can't believe that indonesians pattern can be a match for kimono whatsoaver
I also use Indonesian batiks for obi. It’s one of the best patterns ❤️
@@BillyMatsunaga I would love to see batik on your obi. I've been thinking to make a kimono or yukata with full batiks on it.
Your people have incredibly beautiful textile, and Billy's friend is 100% accurate in saying many Japanese textile crafts were borrowed from a wide area and then refined. I think us non-Japanese people always think of kimono as those long-sleeved garments with patterns of cranes and chrysanthemums, pagodas and kites. But geometric patterns, or 'blurry' ikat would be perfect for everyday wear.
@13:28 Oh man, I feel this so badly. I did a livestream on Reddit where I was showing my kimono collection and talking about them. Everyone loved my houmongi with cherry blossoms...and while it's a very nice piece, there is nothing special about it for those of us who collect and wear kimono. But my very nice (though subtle) Yuki tsumugi kimono...or my unique houmongi featuring the Yokohama Bay Bridge...or my lovely antique shibori ro komon...crickets! Nothing! T_T Even after I explained what made them great, nothing! It's tough.
Happy to have him mentioned Indonesia, my home country
I feel a lot better about struggling to learn kimono stuff because you two professionals put in to perspective just how much there is, how many ways there are to wear/use kimono and accessories and how it is a life long learning experience. I've just scratched the surface over a few years. I really appreciate and look up to you and your channel. Thank you!
I love fabric so much! And to have so many wonderful woven fabrics to work with must keep him and his shop very interesting. I have only been to Japan one time but hope to return again. I live on Hawaii Island and have found some wonderful pieces of fabrics and obi that people have saved many years for me! Some day, I will find the correct way to best use them. Would love to see more of the woven fabrics. Old and new. Aloha
I want to go back to Japan, especially Osaka. I wish I'd known about his shop when I visited in 2016. I loved it so much and felt so at home there. I've been obsessed with Kimono since I watched the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" with my grandmother as a kid.
Like with anything that catches my interest, I studied deeply, looked up so much information about Geisha, their history, it's part in Japanese history and culture, and of course kimono. I learned about okiya and maiko training in the past and currently, and about kimono accessories like nagajuban, koshihimo, obijime, obi age, datejime, different types of kimono, like furisode, kurotomesode, huomongi, and other items like yukata, haori, kanzashi, zori,tabi,hakama. I haven't researched it in a long time but I still know all these niche words from all that intense study, lol. That weird pillow he mentions is called a "takamakura" a "tall pillow" unless I'm mistaken. It's a cushion placed on a rectangular stand, which keeps the person's head elevated, preventing their hairstyle from being squished against the floor or messed up by a pillow as they sleep.
I can't wsit to return to Japan and visit this place and the flea markets, now that, thanks to Matsunaga san, I know where to look this time. Last time I was flying blind, but I did still come back with beautiful haori and what I believe is a huomongi meant to be worn in the fall. I don't have much occcaision and don't have all the accessories to wear the huomongi, however I have been brave enough to wear the haori sometimes over western clothes, and I feel so grateful every time I wear the haori that I can have it as a part of my wardrobe, because each one seems like a work of art to me, even if maybe they are not high quality, I treasure them because they were part of that wonderful trip. I do have an Oshima Tsumugi haori I've purchased in the past year, and I'm in love with it. It is plum colored, with a cool texture on the outside and a beautiful, very subtle teal blue pattern, and the lining on the inside is a stunning pattern of pinks and greens.
After reading about that style of dying and weaving I was fascinated. So much hard work and love goes into making each piece, and so again I feel so grateful that I have the privelege of owning and wearing it.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling and say that I loved hearing him talk about his grandmother and I agree with another commenter that I would love to see examples of a more sloppy style of dress that was mentioned. Like others mentioned I could listen to him talk about his grandmother and about history of textiles and patterns of dress in Japan for hours.
Wonderful 'interview'. A wealth of new historical information to explore! Seems the modern world is experiencing a somewhat uninspiring version of kimono from the modern need to commodify by reduction, what sounds like what was once a huge array of daily wearing styles. Thank you for making the audience aware of this depth. If only you could interview Grandma!
We need more video like this.
This is absolutely wonderful! I could listen to this for hours for example as a podcast... I just have to polish my japanese now
Thank you both so much for sharing this lovely chat. I appreciate the opportunity to virtually visit Japan again. This is better than real life in some ways because my Japanese is not good enough to have had such an in-depth conversation with such an engaging expert. Who knows. Maybe kimono styling will evolve again to include more diverse and casual styles. Your other videos on goth and pop style kimono give me more reason to hope.
Ahhh, this video made me smile so much, it's really inspiring to hear someone have such a great talk about the topic they love!
Thank you!
I really appreciated this video, and it was very interesting to hear you nerd out! I would love more of this!
Hello! Thank you for this video. Very interesting to listen to your discussion. I like japanese fabric and kimono. I got one, av very casual kimono and it don't looks so fancy but when I really look att the pattern it's really beautiful. More of this interesting subjekt, please. Thank you!
So many lovely informative things. Was worth the subtitles, thanks.
Now i wonder about the casual and neat differences in kimono wearing.
I am fascinated by all things Kimono. I am writing an essay this year and next year a dissertation about the symbols on kimono and their meanings. I wonder if you can tell us all about this fascinating subject?
That was such a great video! Thanks to you both for this discussion, it was so interesting to hear ♥️ i'd be so curious to learn more about the different styles and type of local wearing! I'm so curious about the traditional wearing in Okinawa, now!
I don't know why but I was inspired to want to sew a tye-dyed kimono which is so irrelevant but it the idea was in the back of my head.
This was incredibly interesting and informative
Now I want to go on a kimono vacation to learn about kimono and meet all these interesting people!
Now I wish we could have a video on heko obi, maybe with some diy instructions? Although it seems silly to ask for a heko obi sewing tutorial... ^^'
This was such pleasant visit. I couldn't take my eyes off the fabric in the background.
This was so nice to watch!!
Love every new information on this!! I remember i have some batik on my stash and after watching your videos on making haori and kimono, guess i'll make them into that.
They look great as obi. I’ve already made 2!
Wonderful video
This is precisely the video I needed today! It's such a wonderful rabbit-hole to go down, and it's helped me properly identify my new haori! I now know it's meisen silk! Now I just need to figure out how old it is! And find a good enough silk to replace the lining... and find silk thread... and gold thread to stabilise the moth holes in the top layer... because I'm going to do tiny kintsugi stablisation because I'm crazy.
Fascinating discussion. I am always particularly interested when we hear people talking about how kimono were worn in the near and distant past, and how that has evolved to today.
On a side note, sewist isn't really a term used in English (I don't know if it even "officially" exists) - the normal term would be a seamstress or seamster (seamster itself is a very unusual term, most tailors for menswear were just referred to as tailors).
Interesting though that the OED added “sewist” already in 2019... public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-march-2019/
Thanks for this wonderful conversation! I love how passionate both of you are about kimono and artisans from all over the world.
I would love to visit this store and get a kimono made! It looks so wonderful. I think it would be very hard to choose just one!
👏👏👏Fascinating! I was completely absorbed in the conversation! Most notations (explanatory) I missed because they went by too fast; will have to watch again & again! Thank you for this visit & the history lessons included, Billy! I would definitely want to visit your friend's shop! 🤗
Thank you so much! it is so interesting and inspiring. I will watch this video many times to get every information! I really want to pay a visit to his store 😍
I love your channel so much 💕💕
This interview is a treasure :O Thank you for your amazing work !
Billy that was so much fun to watch and it was so interesting. And it was very educational. Thank you for the video.
I loved watching this!! Thank you so much for including subtitles!!
Amazing interview. I need to see these amazing fabrics in person ♥ Thank you!
Billy, this was wonderful.
BILLY please help! I was really hoping to get a custom printed yukata from these links. Maybe you can do a video on how we can get a custom printing done i dont care how much it would cost my kimono journey is going to be a long one
hello miss billy can i please make a request on how to tie a formal ni-jyu daiko musubi
Nice to watch !!
Amazing! Thank you both!
Thank you so much for this!
veeery intersting! Thank you
i am really impressed!! Thanks for
the video👏👍😊
Thanks for watching! ❤️
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he is wearing an amasing kimono !!! how for God´s sake did they marble the cloth ???!!!
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I love to wear a kimono comfy and sloppy 😊
I love the stories what your friend told about the fashion from the oldern days....and about the weird pillow!! Or i can call it head rest(?) which i just saw it in a movie last week😆 Indeed a very informative video on the types of weaves which brings a different feel to a kimono outfit😍👘👍🏻 Thanks Billy🌸