In a major American travel magazine, Kyoto has been ranked as the number one tourist city in the world for two consecutive years. Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine was chosen as the number one “sightseeing spot foreign tourists want to visit in Japan”. Fushimi boasts being exceptionally popular in Kyoto, an international tourist city. “Coto-iroha notes: Kyoto/Fushimi version” was planned with the idea of further supporting Fushimi from a slightly different viewpoint. This diverse range of 47 creators with an affinity for Kyoto (designers, photographers, flower arrangement experts, cultural experts, boulangerie, aspiring creators, etc.) combined five-and-seven syllable meter words about the famous sites and objects in Fushimi with drawings and photos to create an image of Fushimi which is like, so to speak, very unique “iroha cards”. They were able to make theminto subtly distinct emotion-filled notes using the special qualities of enhanced Cappan technology and printing paper. The visual images and concern with fine detail and materials of these 47 people who passionately love Fushimi, the technique of the craftsmen and their feelings displayed in printing, bookbinding and the processing are incorporated in a very genuine manner. An approach to “cultivate creators” through an academia-industry collaboration with Kyoto University of Art and Design will also be carried out through the media of notebook computers to produce a new image of Fushimi. You’ll always want to keep them with you. They’re also suitable as gifts of trips to Kyoto & Fushimi. It would be wonderful if this soulful work could help foster a new image of Fushimi.
●Sponsor/Printing : The KYOTO PRESS