The first day of 2023 has passed.
It's filled with energy,
It feels like everything has grown.
Especially this year, the coronavirus pandemic has come to an end.
Maybe that's the strong atmosphere.
This is Sakemaru.
So even on my own farm,
Summer vegetables are starting to grow one after another!
My favorite cilantro,
The buds have finally appeared and are starting to sprout.
Just adding this to a raw vegetable salad makes
Instant Asian ethnicity.
This is soybeans.
It's an extremely rare domestic variety and grown without any pesticides.
I would like to use it to make my own miso in the winter, but...
before that,
I guess I'll eat them as edamame in the summer (lol)
The peppers have already started to fruit.
If there's a lot of it, I'd like to make it into stir-fried gapao.
And on the carrot leaves that are almost finished,
A seven-spotted ladybug.
Beneficial insects that eat aphids
This year it was a big success!
In the latter half of May, when Shoman came,
I'd like to introduce an item that I've dreamed of getting for many years.
This is it!
It's made from Hawaiian shirt fabric.
We had a "Boshu Uchiwa" fan made!
First of all, I need to give a proper explanation of Boshu Uchiwa.
We placed a few of these pamphlets in each store,
If you're interested, take it home and read it carefully.
What is Boshu?
This refers to the "Awa region" where I was born and raised.
The name "Boshu" comes from the character "Bo" in Awa.
This was a phrase used until the end of the Edo period...
Bushu (Musashi Province: present-day Tokyo and Saitama)
Oshu (Owari Province: present-day western Aichi Prefecture),
It is the same as Senshu (Izumi Province: present-day southwestern Osaka).
Originally, Boso was close to Edo,
It was a production center for various goods delivered to Edo, a major consumer market.
At the time, the summer fans that brightened up the Edo period were made from split bamboo...
Boso was a producer of bamboo.
In the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake,
Many craftsmen from Edo (Tokyo) began to move to Boso,
Production expands.
Alongside Kyoto Uchiwa and Marugame Uchiwa,
It has a long history as one of the three major fans in Japan.
In 2003, it was designated as a traditional craft.
These are traditional crafts made in my hometown .
If that's the case, I'd like to get involved with them with an eye towards their future as Dry Bones.
I was looking around at various workshops and sales outlets, but...
Meanwhile, an interesting encounter occurred.
There was a woman demonstrating how to make a fan somewhere…
After a little chat, I found out that it is also possible to have custom fabric added.
So, when I visited the workshop later and we were talking...
At a wedding reception for a customer of Dry Bones Tokyo,
It turns out they were at the same table!
We had a mutual friend!
Such a coincidence doesn't happen very often!
So the talks went smoothly.
This is the order that was placed.
I was shown a little bit of the process.
Everything is made by hand, through 21 steps.
1: Bamboo selection
2: Peeling
3: Polishing
4: Soaking in water
5: Split bamboo
6. Massage
7: Drilling holes
8: Woven Bamboo
9: Pattern filling
10. Suge
11: Lower window
12: Making the windows
13: Picking up
14: Harvesting
15: Grilling
16: Paste
17: Cutting
18: With helicopter
19: Undercoat
20: Topcoat
21: Finishing touches
The process is as follows.
In my opinion…
In particular, splitting the bamboo and making the windows seems like a difficult task.
It's detailed and painstaking work (of course, it's all done by skilled craftsmen).
The exterior is made of original Dry Bones dyed rayon fujiette.
The back is made of traditional colored Japanese paper.
In addition, the edges that go around the edges and the threads on the windows are also
I specified all the colors.
(It matches the colour and pattern of the outer fabric, so it's coordinated!)
Furthermore, to clarify that it was made by an original,
A red seal on the Japanese paper on the back.
Can you read it?
The kanji used is "Dry Bones"!
The first release features these two patterns and two color schemes.
First
Boso fan "MEXICO"!
and,
Boso fan "SPIDER WEB"!
Something like this,
A truly emotional summer scene.
First, coordinate with the newly arrived Hawaiian shirt "MEXICO."
(SPIDER WEB shirts will be available soon.)
Probably the whole world...
Vintage reproduction Hawaiian shirts,
The matching patterns for the traditional Boshu fan were created by
Dry Bones should be first!
Enjoy this new and emotional summer tradition.
Now, another matter.
I, Sakemaru,
I am working on starting a new business in my hometown of Tateyama.
But my heart is already starting to break...
There are documents that need to be submitted to government offices.
It's piling up like a mountain.
There are many things around us.
Food stores and companies
Everybody did it the same way, right?
That alone is enough to earn me respect...
Such documents,
Just starting to read it makes me dizzy (sweat)
I have to do my best.
see you.
