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CRAFT
Kajiku Setsu / Kajiku Bingata
At STRATA, guest room art features patterns that represent Okinawa's plants, ocean waves, sky clouds, and accumulated history and culture. The designs, which combine abstraction and concreteness, stillness and movement, are interpreted in various ways depending on the color and the viewer's imagination. The overlapping layers of the earth, inspired by the "chains" woven in the region's nature, are expressed through the beauty of "repetition" using stencils.
PROFILE
Kajiku Setsu / Kajiku Bingata
Born in Naha City, Kajiku has roots in the Yaeyama Islands. From a young age, he grew up feeling close to the islands, listening to the sounds and songs of the sanshin, watching his grandparents serve as the hostess of the Ontake shrine, and seeing and hearing his aunt's Yaeyama fabric and folk tools. He was introduced to bingata as a student and gradually became fascinated by it. He joined the Chinen Bingata Institute in 2004. He studied under the late Sadao Chinen for 11 years and established the Kajiku Bingata Studio in 2015. Since 2016, he has been a Bingata technique instructor at the Okinawa Prefectural Crafts Promotion Center.
Born in Naha City, Kajiku has roots in the Yaeyama Islands. From a young age, he grew up feeling close to the islands, listening to the sounds and songs of the sanshin, watching his grandparents serve as the hostess of the Ontake shrine, and seeing and hearing his aunt's Yaeyama fabric and folk tools. He was introduced to bingata as a student and gradually became fascinated by it. He joined the Chinen Bingata Institute in 2004. He studied under the late Sadao Chinen for 11 years and established the Kajiku Bingata Studio in 2015. Since 2016, he has been a Bingata technique instructor at the Okinawa Prefectural Crafts Promotion Center.