Tea utensils, tea ceremony tools, old cloth, zodiac sign, ox, old cloth, Chinese cloth, Shoba weave, pure silk, Kengyū-kadan Shoba, made by Tomoko Tsuchida, one of the Senke ten craftsmen, bag maker

For Urasenke
Size: Approx. 15.2 x 15.2 cm
Material: Pure silk (100% silk)
Author: Tomoko Tsuchida (Senke Jusho Fukuro)
Box: Gift box and wrapping paper
Caution: The color on your screen may differ from the actual color.
●The pattern will change depending on where the fabric is taken from.

What are the Ten Craftsmen of the Senke?
It is an honorific title for ten craftsmen, including lacquerers and joiners, who are involved in the tea ceremony and frequent the three Sen schools (Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Mushakojisenke). It was reorganized into the current ten craftsmen during the Meiji period. (There is also a theory that it was named by Mitsukoshi Department Store during the Taisho period.)
Who is Yuko Tsuchida?
After giving up his samurai career, he became a Nishijin textile broker under the name "Echigoya Hanbei." He also trained in the tailoring of bags, and was taken in by the sixth head of the Omotesenke school, Kakukakusai, to begin sewing tea caddy covers.
From the second generation onwards, the head of the family was commonly known as Hanshiro, and when he retired and shaved his head he took the name Tomoko. Up until the fifth generation, the family was a bag maker specialising in making shifuku (seals), and the 12th generation (succeeded in 1965) currently makes shifuku (seals) for tea caddies, hakama (cloths), and kaku obi (belts) for tea ceremony utensils.
What is Shoha weaving?
The fabric that Satomura Shoha loved to use is called "Shoha" weaving. It is similar to tsuzure weaving, and is woven in such a way that the weft threads wrap around the warp threads, and the pattern design and color scheme are woven only by the weft threads. Therefore, it has excellent flexibility and elasticity, and as a woven fabric, it is thin, light, and does not easily lose its shape.
There is a tea ceremony using Shobaori fabric.

Tomoko Tsuchida's works can be found here → Please click to view.

Click here for various zodiac themed works → Please click to view.

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