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Do you know a Western painting called "Stand by Me"?

This is a movie by Stephen King depicting the summer adventures of American boys. (Original title "The Body")

A bridge with a somewhat similar feeling is built in parallel with Harumi Bridge in the Harumi district to the impressive railway bridge in this movie.

I call it "Stand by Me" bridge without permission.

　

Do you know a movie titled "Stand by Me"?

It was about a group of boys' adventure which the original title was "The Body", written by Stephen King.

One of the impressive factors in the screen was the railroad bridge, and somehow, a bridge quite similar to the one in the movie can be found in Harumi district, built next to Harumi bridge.

I personally call this bridge "Stand by Me" bridge.

　

　

　

　　

　

It used to be used for transporting cement factories, but it is not currently used and is not allowed to enter.

　

The bridge was operated by cement plant some time ago, but currently unused.　

　

　

　

　

　

Every time you look at this bridge, you hum the theme song "When the night is coming ~".

It's just 23 years since the starring River Phoenix died early at the age of 23.

If he was alive, he would have been 46 years old, and he would surely have become a famous actor.

　

Everytime I glance at the bridge, the lyrics "When the night has come・・・" pops up.

This is the 23rd year after River Phoenix, leading actor of the movie, passed away at the age of 23.

He would be 46 years old if he had not gone away, and would have become a great actor.

　

 

 

This is a rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as a monument.

This is an interview with Yuko Takagi, a cogin sashimi writer and lecturer, at Ningyocho Classroom Co., Ltd., following the last time.

　

⑥　About classroom enrollment

"The enrollment fee is 5,000 yen, the monthly fee is 6,000 yen (both excluding consumption tax), and it is a course twice a month, every two hours. You are free to visit. Experience courses are also available at any time. The hands-on course is 2,500 yen (excluding consumption tax) with scissors, measuring instruments, and bringing writing utensils. "

"In the classroom, up to 3 works will be made in orthodox basic forms. When it's done, the work is free. From the fourth work, you can make what you want to make. You can make various original kogin sashimi goods such as tapestry, bag, table center, etc. ・・ ・ ・ You may be surprised by the ideas and sense of color of young people. I myself can learn no matter how old I am. In fact, while keeping tradition, I also create pictorial things like the fifty-three Tokaido."

　

⑦　About NHK Cultural Center International Exchange Festival

"It's been 30 times this year, but we're all participating. There are many European countries. Last year is Budapest, Hungary, and this year is scheduled for Antwerp, Belgium in November."

"When I go abroad, I don't take most of my works home. Since this is sold at exhibitions in Japan, my work is not so much on my hand. If the number of students is increasing in this way, I don't have much time to stabb yourself. "

　

⑧　About meeting with Mr. Rokusuke Ei

"The encounter with Rokusuke Ei, who died on July 7, is NHK's live broadcast variety program "Let's dream!" I wasn't the performer at that time. My brother happened to come out, so "Do you not come?" I was invited to observe the filming. There, Mr. Naga or composer Hachidai Nakamura came and got to know him. Mr. Naga often went to rural areas, so he knew about kogin sashimi. It's been about 50 years ago.

"As I said, I don't have much work on my own, so at my exhibition for nearly 10 years, I was borrowing and exhibiting my work owned by Mr. Ei. This is the Rokusuke Ei Collection (the two photos below). This is from Takashimaya Nihonbashi (creative kogin sashimi exhibition) two years ago. This photo is a photo sent by Mr. Naga before his death (upper photo). This is also my work. In a video of a certain TV station in memory of Mr. Naga, I put it on my knee without wearing this half coat. "

　

←"This is a pattern made for Mr. Naga's half-wearing."

　

⑨　About the next exhibition at Takashimaya Nihonbashi

"From Wednesday, October 19 to 25 (Tuesday), we are planning to hold a "Women's Handicraft Kogin Sashi Exhibition" at Takashimaya Nihonbashi. Please come and visit us."

　

⑩　About gift

"As is the case at exhibitions, we also sell works in this classroom. There are some people who sometimes come here. As a souvenir when people from rural areas return to the countryside. It's affordable and comes out of small items like bags or small wallets. With the wallet in front, it costs around 4,000 yen (pictured below). "

2-4-9 Nihonbashi Ningyocho Futaba Building 5F

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This is rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as an essence.

Today, we visited the Ningyocho Classroom of Kogin Sashi Thursday Association Co., Ltd., and talked to Mr. Hiroko Takagi, the director of Kogin Sashishi writer and lecturer.

First, the explanation of Koginzashi.

↑　Dr. Takagi. In the back, there is a piece of work.

Traditional techniques, folk art embroidery, and traditional crafts were born in the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture, with unique geometric patterns made with white cotton threads on indigo (navy blue) fabric. The difference from other sashiko is to stabb odd eyes on the vertical weave.

In 1724 (Kyoho 9), the "Farmhouse Frugality Ordinance" strictly regulates farmers' work clothes. The prohibition of cotton kimono, even in the cold region of the northern country, hemp kimono was allowed. You can't lining it.

So the girl in Tsugaru thought.

Fine embroidery is applied to the shoulders, back, and arms of the hemp kimono. The idea of reversal is to thicken the fabric, enhance the heat retention effect, make it durable, and evolve it even more aesthetically.

This is the root of kogin sashimi.

In the Tsugaru region, the stray clothes were called Kogin (both small cloth and small width), so this name was given.

In addition to preserving the tradition, modern creative kogin sashimi arranged with new designs and colorful dyed yarns are also popular. I'm good at this classroom.

This is an interview with Dr. Takagi.

　

①　About meeting with kogin sashimi

"There was a small sting in a hotel where I happened to go to Lake Towada with my friend and stayed there. Seeing it, she asked her, "What is this?" When I heard that it was stabbing, "Well, where are you doing this?" When I heard that, I was told that no one was doing it right now in Aomori. I was told that if I was collecting it, I was in Aomori City, and I was introduced to that person, but that person was an ethnologist Chusaburo Tanaka. I've already died. When I jumped into that person and talked about the stabbing, he said, "Oh, Tokyo's Hitogane, do you try it?" And I got a small piece, and that's the beginning."

　

②　The story when I became a lecturer at NHK Cultural Center

"I have an acquaintance at NHK, and I asked him," Why don't you try it? " I was told. And I was bored with Saturday Sunday on a two-day weekly holiday, and I was free to say that I should do that."

　

③　About Yumikai (Yumikai International Art Exhibition)

"I met the chairman. So I'm going to participate when I quit my job at a general company at retirement age, and now I'm the vice president. "

　

④　About Ningyocho Classroom

"It's been four years ago. Until then, I had a classroom at my home in Ningyocho. I got acquainted with the building owner, "Tofu no Futaba-san." There are also 10 other classrooms in the Kanto region, Kobe, Nagoya and Shizuoka. "

　

⑤　About your own work

↑　53rd Nihonbashi, Tokaido

"I'm now doing it when I get an order. With such a hanten, it takes one year to calculate everything from the design to the thread dyeing until then. Each classroom also goes around, so I don't have much time to stabb yourself. There's also a lot of work. Actually, I'd like to have the Tokaido fifty-three order main. I'm doing it from a place where it's easy to do as a design. ・・ ・From orthodox ones to pictorial ones like the fifty-three, the works are wide."

・・・ I will carry it over to the next time.

2-4-9 Nihonbashi Ningyocho Futaba Building 5F

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