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RENEW × Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan -The town loved by young designers and craftsmen- Part 2

2018.01.18

Arts and crafts

As we introduced about the special event, “RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI (Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan)” at Echizen Sabae Echizen Lacquerware Traditional Industry Building, Urushi-no-sato Kaikan in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, there were many interesting and creative things to see and do.

 

Other than Echizen Sabae Echizen Lacquerware Traditional Industry Building, Urushi-no-Kaikan in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, studios and shops in several areas in Sabae City were used for other events as part of the event.

 

 

Creema Caravan in Nakayama park in Sabae, Fukui

Source: The photograph from the official website of

“RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI

(Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan”(http://renew-fukui.com/index.html)

*only available in Japanese

 

At the studios in Kawada district, Sabae City, “RENEW” was held. The craftsmen in the venue area opened their studios to the public. The visitors felt how it is to be in their studios and touched the actual products made by them. The products were purchasable.

 

 

poster of Creema Craft Cravan

Source: The photograph from the official website of “RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI (Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan”(http://renew-fukui.com/index.html)

*only available in Japanese

 

At Nakayama Park in Sabae City “Creema Craft Caravan in Sabae” was held. There was a flea market in which handmade accessories and many products were sold.

 

 

 advertising of letting people move to Kawada in Fukui. Expo of Moving to Kawada
A factory called PARK in Kawada, Sabae City, Fukui experience making things inside of the factory called PARK in Kawada, Sabae City, Fukui inside of the factory called PARK in Kawada, Sabae City, Fukui

Source: The photograph from the official website of “RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI (Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan”(http://renew-fukui.com/index.html)

*only available in Japanese

 

At PARK in Kawada district, Sabae City, “Moving to Kawada district, EXPO” was held.
At this event, the visitors observed the inside of Park FACTORY and experienced making products.

 

 

young people who have moved to Kawada, Sabae CIty, Fukuiguest speakers

Source: The photograph from the official website of “RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI (Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan)”(http://renew-fukui.com/index.html)

*only available in Japanese

 

The panel discussion was conducted by some of the 67 young designers and craftsmen who moved to Kawada district from other prefectures in the past few years. Also, they invited guest speakers for the special panel discussion. At this event, the vacancy information of the houses in Kawada and employment information were released.

 

If you have a chance to visit the event, RENEW × Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan, please enjoy their great handmade crafts, panel discussion and their studios.

 

Also, even when there isn’t any event held at Echizen Sabae Echizen Lacquerware Traditional Industry Building, Urushi-no-sato Kaikan in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, you can see and purchase the traditional lacquerwares, learn about them and experience making lacquerware.

 

I'd like to share a video of "RENEW", "RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI (Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan ". You can see how interesting and creative the event was. Please enjoy!

RENEW×大日本市鯖江博覧会 from RENEW on Vimeo.

T.F

Bamboche de Yama, a lovely restaurant in the center of Fukui City

2018.01.17

Gourmet

On the night of heavy snow, I went to a restaurant "Bamboche de Yama", which is in the center of Fukui city but a bit far from the center of downtown. It is a small bistro with 4 or 5 tables.

 

I ordered a course of dishes to share, 5,000 yen per person for dishes. Of course, you can choose an ordinary full-course style. First I ordered glasses of Sherry, then Burgundy and Rhone red wine in half bottles. When I want to consult about a drink, it is good that the distance to the shop people is close. We enjoyed our meal calmly.

 

It was also a point for me that they asked whether there are any foods I can't eat when booking.
I thought that I would like to come again.
T.S

 


Appetizer of the day

 


Dish of fish

 


It is a meat dish, but since the vegetables on the side were beautiful, I took a photo from this direction...

 


The appearance of the restaurant that I took this morning. It is a house built next to a big building.

 


Opposite the restaurant, there is the Mouth of Truth on the wall of Fukui Palace Hotel.

Photo exhibition of Mitsuaki Iwago’s World “Cats” Travelogue 

2018.01.14

Cats

The Sea of Japan side was hit by a cold wave this weekend.
In Fukui, the snow accumulation of 70 cm was recorded, the first time in seven years.
Although I am used to heavy snowfall, looking at the snow falling all day,
I was anxious how much the snow would accumulate.
Today, snowing finally stopped and I feel relieved that I can see the blue sky.

 

By the way, during the New Year’s holidays, I went to see the photo exhibition of Mitsuaki Iwago’s World “Cats” Travelogue held at Seibu department store in Fukui.
Although this is the year of the Dog, people don’t seem to be interested in dogs.
The exhibition was popular.
For reference, there is the year of the Cat in Tibet and Thailand etc.

 

There were photos of adorable cats taken in Paris, Provence, Sicily, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Hawaii, Taiwan and Okinawa etc. in the exhibition. Most of the cats have beautiful names such as Praline, Requy, Noel, Nina, Pichoux, Lirou, Isabel and Olga etc. which each features its location.

 

I was happy to be comforted by cats around the world early in the new year. (H.S)

 


This is the exhibition’s poster cat, Gazette (female) in Paris.
The pose is well known in its neighborhood.

 

*Iwago used Olympus OM-D E-M1 to take all of the cat photos.
Of course, while he was filming with a video camera for TV, he also had the camera around his neck. He appreciated it was a high-performance and a small one. And, it was a good thing for cats also.

RENEW × Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan -The town loved by young designers and craftsmen- Part 1

2018.01.11

Arts and crafts

RENEW poster

Source: The photograph from the official website of

“RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI

(Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan”(http://renew-fukui.com/index.html)

*only available in Japanese

 

I went to Echizen Sabae Echizen Lacquerware Traditional Industry Building,

Urushi-no-sato Kaikan in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture in October, 2017.

 

When I visited there, a special event, “RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI (Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan)” was held.

 

The event “RENEW” cooperated with Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten to make this event happen. The concept of the event is the town the town loved by young designers and craftsmen. 85 studios and companies from Fukui and other prefectures participated in the event.

Other than Echizen Sabae Echizen Lacquerware Traditional Industry Building, Urushi-no-Kaikan in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, studios and shops in several areas in Sabae City were used for other events as part of the event.

 

 

the special store set up for the event, RENEW

Source: The photograph from the official website of

“RENEW × DAINIPPONICHI SABAE HAKURANKAI

(Exhibition of Sabae City in Japan”(http://renew-fukui.com/index.html)

*only available in Japanese

 

At Urushi-no-sato Kaikan, as soon as I walked into the building, I saw a cute and gorgeous deer coated with traditional urushi lacquer was exhibited for the special event. And in other areas in the building, there were DJs playing nice music and many designers and artists exhibited their handmade products as well.
They also had Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten’s store and panel discussion.

 

One of the special booths I liked was a shopping area. There were stylish products including sweaters, sweatshirts, scarfs, accessories, incense and everything in between. They also had Japanese confectioneries and several kinds of snacks.

 

incense and dried fruits I bought at the event
Kyoto Rokujo incenseHoriuchi Kaju en's dried fruits wighout any artificial sugar

I bought a pack of incense sticks (the smell is so nice and the package looks stylish)and a bag of organic dried fruits (they tasted sweet even with no sugar added).

 

The event had both new and old ways of creating things.

I think that traditional things are very important in any culture.

However, focusing on only traditional might be less interesting.

With only traditional, people can't see/feel the new things and/or have new perspectve.

Things can stay the same and it can inhibit potential of young people as well.

Therefore, I enjoyed this event so much because it had both new and old.

 

I would like to share one of our videos
" Lacquerware artisans from Bhutan taking a training program in Kawada district in Sabae City".

In this video, young lacquerware artisan from Bhutan who learned about Japanese lacquerware in Sabae, Fukui talks about how she felt about the lacquerware in Sabae, Fukui. She also talks about how important for both new and old are used. Please enjoy watching it.

T.F

 

Official website of Echizen Lacquerware Cooperative

Mini drone for training "mode 1"

2018.01.09

Production notes

HS-170G
Since it was necessary for me to operate drones by mode 1, I purchased Holy Stone's HS-170G for practice. This has a switch of the operating mode between 1 and 2, whereas the most of mini drones so far were fixed in mode 2.
I attached labels explaining the operation method of mode 1 to that manipulator.

 

hovering under the air conditioner
Because mini drones are light, they are flowed to a light wind such as of the air conditioner. Using that, I tried to keep the aircraft that is irregularly drifted at a fixed position by moving it quickly in the opposite direction as much as possible.
I think this will be a good exercise.
T.S

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