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Dear Readers.

Did you know that Kyoto City has designated Vernal Equinox Day as “Traditional Industries Day”? The Kyoto Traditional Industries Festival is held to promote familiarity with Kyoto’s traditional industries that have been passed down through the ages.

Our goal is to connect people’s daily lives with craftsmanship through crafts, and to bring many people into contact with Kyoto’s traditional industries. Handmade crafts are a new meanings to our daily lives. Moreover, Kyoto’s traditional crafts are loved by people all over the world as “KYOTO BRAND”.

On the other hand, Japanese houses are sometimes decorated with traditional crafts from foreign countries. I think it is very important to understand the cultures of each country and to respect each other.
I hope that next year’s Vernal Equinox Day will be a peaceful day when everyone from all over the world can freely come to Kyoto and enjoy the Day of Traditional Industries based on a new theme.

CRAFT POINT KYOTO
Dates: Saturday, February 19, 2022 – Thursday, March 31, 2022
Main venue: Kyoto Museum of Crafts & Design (B1F, Miyako Messe)
　For details, please refer to the WEB site (https://kmtc.jp/en/).

Text ＆Translation: Kyoto Museum of Crafts & Design , Yutaka Sato

Images courtesy of Kyoto Museum of Crafts & Design and Anastasiya Bulkavets (ArigatoCreative.co)