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- Title
The Development of Quiltmaking in Japan since the 1970s.
- Authors
Nomura, Nao
- Abstract
Starting in the 1970s, traveling exhibitions of American quilts introduced Japanese audiences to what they perceived as a quintessentially American form of material culture. Since that time Japanese quiltmakers have adopted and adapted quiltmaking in ways that are highly influenced by American traditions yet simultaneously particular to Japanese culture. This paper examines the introduction, popularization, and diffusion of American quiltmaking in Japan over a period of forty years, documenting the appropriation of American aesthetics, the establishment of 'quilt schools' in the Japanese tradition, and the emergence of contemporary Japanese-style quilts through the analysis of literary evidence, fieldwork at a quilt school, and interviews with quiltmakers. Japanese women are now playing an active role in the making of a new hybrid quiltmaking culture resulting from the global circulation of quilt knowledge and information as well as the active flow of quiltmakers and quilts.
- Subjects
JAPAN; QUILTED goods; QUILTS; MATERIAL culture; QUILTING; HISTORY of popular culture -- 20th century; CULTURAL production; AMERICAN influences on Japanese civilization; JAPANESE civilization; JAPANESE history, 1945-1989
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2010, Vol 31, p105
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article