New days with Serizawa Keisuke : MOMAT collection / curated by National Crafts Museum, Takahashi Yukako ; edited and text written by Takahashi Yukako

Notes

• Keisuke Serizawa 芹沢銈介 (1895-1984), a leader of the mingei (folk craft) movement, created the kataezome 型絵染 technique of stencil dying which was designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property in April 1956 with Serizawa himself recognized as a Living National Treasure of Japan embodying this technique.
• Catalog of an exhibition held at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Collection Gallery on 23 Jan - 7 Apr 2024. Translated by Christopher Stevens [Stephens]. Includes bibliographical references (page 15). Introduction, list of works, and colophon in Japanese and English; text in Japanese. Classic works by the dyeing artist Serizawa Keisuke from the collection of the National Crafts Museum.
• Over his lifetime, Serizawa created countless designs for everything from matchbox covers, to kimono, to folding screens. But his most popular works are his mass produced, kataezome, stencil-dyed picture calendars on Japanese paper using designs drawn from Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Western motifs. These annual calendars, released in the late fall of the previous year, were first issued by Serizawa in 1946 and continue to be produced today by the traditional paper making company Keijusha 桂樹舎 in Toyama using previous years' (using a year with the same starting weekday and equal number of days) stencils originally cut by Serizawa, each stenciled by hand onto Keijusha's traditionally made durable paper, Yatsuo washi, particularly suited to withstand the rigors of stencil dying.
• Text in Japanese.