About the Exhibition

Textile artist, Yunoki Samiro (b. 1922) began to pursue the craft of dyeing immediately after the end
of the Second World War, after encountering mingei, or Japanese folk craft. For over seventy years
now, he has been working in lavish colors and shapes to portray the little joys that come from
everyday interactions with the world and the objects around us. His world of creation doesn’t stop at
textiles, either, extending also to picture books, prints, and three-dimensional pieces. In this
exhibition, we look at his current activities, including his work based on the twelfth and thirteenth
century scrolls Choju-giga [‘Scrolls of Frolicking Animals’], the original of his picture book Ame ni mo makezu [‘Be Not Defeated by the Rain’] and the works in the museum’s collection.