Saturday, December 17, 2011

Modern Japanese Embroidery Hirano Toshitaro Akiyama Mitsuo's son

Title Modern Embroidery
Publication year 1979
Author Toshitaro Hirano
Preface by Matsuda Gonroku A Living National Treasure.

This is a deluxe Japanese embroidery paltes collection by Hirano Toshitaro. Size 28cm*39cm
It is a good ref material if you are interested in Japanese mbroidery.

His father was an Imperial Embroidery Artist.
Toshitaro Hirano learned embroidery under him.

Mitsuo Akiyama,who was an Imperial embroidery artist,learned embroidery under Toshitaro Hirano.

In the preface to this book,a living national treasure Matsuda Gonroku says,"It can be said that he is a leading figure who expresses embroidery as art works of a very few embroidery artists.In this collective works,you can find new representations and will be fasinated by them"