04 décembre 2022

加賀友禅　　Kaga Yuzen

友禅は着物ではメジャーな染め方として有名ですが、元々は元禄時代に京都岐阜に住んでいた絵師、みやざきゆうぜんさいが創案しました。

Yuzen is famous as a major dyeing method in kimono, but it was originally created by Miyazaki Yuzensai, a painter who lived in Kyoto Gifu in the Genroku era.

一方、友禅染めの始祖であり、加賀(現在の石川県)で没したという説があるみやざきゆうぜんさいは晩年、晩年、加賀藩の紺屋頭取だった太郎田屋に寄寓していたと伝えられています。

On the other hand, it is said that Miyazaki Yuzensai, the founder of Yuzen Dyeing and died in Kaga (present-day Ishikawa Prefecture), was a donation to Taro Taya, who was Konya, the leader of the Kaga Domain, in his later years.

加賀友禅の特徴は、自然の草花や鳥などを写実的な絵柄にすること、冬は雪に埋もれて暮らす北陸は、植物の花が小さく、虫食いの葉が多いのです。加賀友禅はそれらの姿を美しく模様化しており、ことに気の葉模様で「虫喰い」の跡を描く表現は秀逸です。

The characteristic of Kaga Yuzen is that natural flowers and birds are realistic, and in the Hokuriku where they live buried in snow in winter, the flowers of plants are small and there are many insect-eating leaves. Kaga Yuzen has a beautiful pattern of them, and the expression that depicts the traces of "insect-eating" with a leaf pattern is excellent.