Entoten is delighted to announce that we will be hosting Kitamura Tokusai Fukusa Ten, Kyoto’s silk textile maker for practitioners of tea, in San Diego and Los Angeles this spring.
Kitamura Tokusai of Nishijin, Kyoto, has been making silk cloths, or fukusa, 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. 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.
—San Diego—-
Fukusa Sale and Special Ordering Event
[Saturday April 19th]
at PARU La Jolla 7441 Girard Ave Suite B, La Jolla, CA 92037
11:00am – 4:00pm
Sale and order of various fukusa and kobukusa, Special order dashibukusa (Omotesenke), sukiyabukuro, shifuku. Sale of sweets by Kyoto’s Shioyoshiken
Presentation by Mr. KITAMURA Tokusai IX & Tea Demonstration
[Sunday April 20th]
at Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum Inamori Pavilion 2215 Pan American E Rd, San Diego, CA 92101
Purchase tickets from the link below
First Session 11:00am – 12:30pm
Second Session 1:30pm – 3:00pm
A bowl of matcha tea and seasonal sweet will be served to all participants (Member $25 / Non-member $35 Garden Admission is not included)
Pottery with Tokusai’s design by overglaze artist DOI Makiko will also be on display.
Japanese Sweets by Terumi KOGA, WaSweets
Author of CalVegan Wagashi
See Terumi’s Profile on INSTAGRAM
—-Los Angeles—-
Presentation and Talk by Mr. KITAMURA Tokusai IX
[Wednesday April 23rd]
at Japan Foundation, Los Angeles 5700 Wiltshire Blvd, Suite 100 Los Angeles, CA 90036
7:00pm – 8:30pm
<This event is free and open to the public please register from here>
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Hi – I am interested in attending this event in LA, but I don’t see it listed yet on the Japan Foundation website. Is there any way I can register? Thank you!
Thank you Garin for your interest! Here is the link to their event
https://www.jflalc.org/event-details.php/259/meet-silk-textile-maker-from-kyoto-kitamura-tokusai-ix
It is not often I wish I lived in Los Angeles, but this event makes me wish I did! I missed out on visiting the Kitamura Tokusai shop when I was in Japan and I regret it.
I am in awe of the matched pattern chawan and fukusa.
Thank you for your kind comment about the matching teabowl and fukusa design Michael. I wish you lived in LA or San Diego 😉 I hope you’ll get to visit them the next time you’re in Kyoto.