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"d design travel" presents only those things that have truly impressed the reader from the perspective of "long-life design" after traveling to the area as if the editors lived there.
KYOTO Issue : Changing at its own pace, with its own rhythm.
Power can be seized by force, fortunes can be amassed through plunder, but the people of Kyoto will never let outsiders take their city from them. Long and slender like its streets and rivers, subdued and yet never fading, the essence of Kyoto lies in its stubborn adherence to its own eternal sense of time.
One Note on the Cover : "Yatsuhashi" by Sekka Kamisaka (1866-1942)
I learned of Sekka Kamisaka, an artist from Meiji and Showa eras, at Unsodo, a publisher of woodblock printing in Kyoto. Sekka took the traditional process and motifs and rendered them from an avant-garde sensibility. Traditional motifs of "Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)" and "Kakitsubata (Irises)" landscapes which have been drawn by artists such as Kōrin Ogata and Hōitsu Sakai were made startlingly modern by Sekka with bold strokes and vivid use of blue and green. We used the close-up of this painting for the cover of Kyoto issue. Even after 80 years, this painting is quite modern. (Osamu Kuga)
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
**The cover design and total number of pages are the same between this book and the previous one (published in 2015).
KYOTO Issue : Changing at its own pace, with its own rhythm.
Power can be seized by force, fortunes can be amassed through plunder, but the people of Kyoto will never let outsiders take their city from them. Long and slender like its streets and rivers, subdued and yet never fading, the essence of Kyoto lies in its stubborn adherence to its own eternal sense of time.
One Note on the Cover : "Yatsuhashi" by Sekka Kamisaka (1866-1942)
I learned of Sekka Kamisaka, an artist from Meiji and Showa eras, at Unsodo, a publisher of woodblock printing in Kyoto. Sekka took the traditional process and motifs and rendered them from an avant-garde sensibility. Traditional motifs of "Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)" and "Kakitsubata (Irises)" landscapes which have been drawn by artists such as Kōrin Ogata and Hōitsu Sakai were made startlingly modern by Sekka with bold strokes and vivid use of blue and green. We used the close-up of this painting for the cover of Kyoto issue. Even after 80 years, this painting is quite modern. (Osamu Kuga)
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
**The cover design and total number of pages are the same between this book and the previous one (published in 2015).
B5 deformed 192-page full color
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
D&DEPARTMENT
"d design travel" presents only those things that have truly impressed the reader from the perspective of "long-life design" after traveling to the area as if the editors lived there.
KYOTO Issue : Changing at its own pace, with its own rhythm.
Power can be seized by force, fortunes can be amassed through plunder, but the people of Kyoto will never let outsiders take their city from them. Long and slender like its streets and rivers, subdued and yet never fading, the essence of Kyoto lies in its stubborn adherence to its own eternal sense of time.
One Note on the Cover : "Yatsuhashi" by Sekka Kamisaka (1866-1942)
I learned of Sekka Kamisaka, an artist from Meiji and Showa eras, at Unsodo, a publisher of woodblock printing in Kyoto. Sekka took the traditional process and motifs and rendered them from an avant-garde sensibility. Traditional motifs of "Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)" and "Kakitsubata (Irises)" landscapes which have been drawn by artists such as Kōrin Ogata and Hōitsu Sakai were made startlingly modern by Sekka with bold strokes and vivid use of blue and green. We used the close-up of this painting for the cover of Kyoto issue. Even after 80 years, this painting is quite modern. (Osamu Kuga)
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
**The cover design and total number of pages are the same between this book and the previous one (published in 2015).
KYOTO Issue : Changing at its own pace, with its own rhythm.
Power can be seized by force, fortunes can be amassed through plunder, but the people of Kyoto will never let outsiders take their city from them. Long and slender like its streets and rivers, subdued and yet never fading, the essence of Kyoto lies in its stubborn adherence to its own eternal sense of time.
One Note on the Cover : "Yatsuhashi" by Sekka Kamisaka (1866-1942)
I learned of Sekka Kamisaka, an artist from Meiji and Showa eras, at Unsodo, a publisher of woodblock printing in Kyoto. Sekka took the traditional process and motifs and rendered them from an avant-garde sensibility. Traditional motifs of "Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)" and "Kakitsubata (Irises)" landscapes which have been drawn by artists such as Kōrin Ogata and Hōitsu Sakai were made startlingly modern by Sekka with bold strokes and vivid use of blue and green. We used the close-up of this painting for the cover of Kyoto issue. Even after 80 years, this painting is quite modern. (Osamu Kuga)
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
**The cover design and total number of pages are the same between this book and the previous one (published in 2015).
B5 deformed 192-page full color
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
D&DEPARTMENT