Pop-Up: Japanese Tea Ceremony Textiles
From Kyoto, Kitamura Tokusai’s family has been making chanoyu (“the way of tea”) textiles since 1712. Browse, make a purchase in store, or place a special order for your tea utensils.About this experience
Saturday, April 19
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free to RSVP
Please join us in welcoming Kitamura Tokusai, whose family has been Kyoto’s silk textile, or fukusa, maker for practitioners of tea since 1712. Their elegant textiles are among the finest woven silk fabrics available in Japan and are made by highly skilled weavers in Kyoto’s historic Nishijin area that has been the main center for textile production in Japan for over a thousand years.
In collaboration with Entoten, handcrafted cloths, such as fukusa and kobukusa, for your tea utensils will be available for purchase or can be placed for special order. Select sweets by Kyoto’s famous confectionery shop Shioyoshiken will also be on sale.
Unable to attend? Visit the Entoten website for more information about Kitamura Tokusai events in San Diego and Los Angeles. For more about Kitamura Tokusai's history, visit their website.
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Kitamura Tokusai’s inventory of fabrics features over 400 patterns of historical significance, many of which were expressly favored by the founders and most prominent devotees of Japan’s tea culture.
Kitamura Tokusai is testimony to how Japanese tea culture, a unique art form, has helped sustain dedicated craftsmen and preserve numerous traditional crafts in Japan and beyond for the last 400 years.