Beauty in Boro: Kosaku Nukata Collection
ぼろの美 襤褸残照
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A book documenting more than 500 examples of boro from the extensive collection of Nukata Kōsaku.
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While boro can be translated as ‘rags’, it also refers to scraps of fabric stitched together to make everything from garments to bedding. This practice emerged during a time when cloth was scarce, and people in rural Japan resourcefully patched together fragments to create textiles.
This book documents over 500 examples of boro from author Nukata Kōsaku’s collection of more than 1,000 pieces, amassed over 35 years.
Nukata Kōsaku is an artist, member of the Dokuritsu Fine Arts Society, ceramist, and dentist, born in 1935 in Higashi-Ōsaka, Osaka Prefecture. He began collecting boro in the 1980s, and his collection has since grown to more than 1,000 pieces. In 2000, he exhibited the collection in Osaka Prefecture.
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