Katsumi Kanbayashi, 76, is the founder of Kyoto’s Katsumi Sometomo Shobien, one of the last industrial-scale “noren” dyeing factories in Japan. Kanbayashi is self-taught as a curtain maker and the company, which employs eight, still makes curtains from the screen prints he first introduced more than 40 years ago. “It was more like noren suited what I was doing, rather than me choosing to become a curtain maker,” Kanbayashi says. (J.J. O’Donoghue photo) #Japan #Kyoto #noren #のれん #京都 #大極殿 #祇園祭 #伝統 #日本文化
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