Original artwork description:

[Story behind the work]
This artwork uses vintage kimono fabric for background and embroidery inclusion from vintage obi (kimono sash) to depict the rising sun.

Sunlight is created by kimpaku - gold leafing.

[Period]
The artwork uses obi and kimono textiles both from Showa era, around 1960ies.

[Meaning of patterns and colors]
In Japanese culture, the rising sun is a timeless emblem of renewal, strength, and divine presence. It marks not only the beginning of a new day but also the constant cycle of rebirth that underlies nature and human life.

Japan itself is called Nihon or Nippon - “the origin of the sun” - a name that reflects deep reverence for dawn as a sacred moment when light returns to the world.

Artists and poets have long seen the morning sun as a symbol of vitality, courage, and spiritual awakening. Its golden radiance over water, mountains, or clouds suggests harmony between heaven and earth, and the quiet promise that every ending carries a new beginning.

By the way, the circle embroidery inclusion that appears as the sun, was originally a wave... Symbols of nature turn to one another, symbolizing even-lasting fluid character of nature.

In kimono textiles, the rising sun motif often expresses optimism, gratitude, and the eternal rhythm of nature - a gentle reminder that beauty is not fixed, but continually reborn.

[About the Material]
The background fabric has woven ground pattern - "jimon"地紋, that gives it shimmery glow depending on the angle that light hits the fabric surface.

Materials used:

silk (outside-layer), wood

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