Satsuki no Uta: Mitsuhashi Jun's Koinobori - 3m Carp Streamer Set

This is a simple set that includes only the windsock and carp streamer with mounting clips. This carp streamer set is specifically for customers who already own carp streamers for siblings or who can provide their own wood or bamboo poles. It can also be freely displayed indoors or hung as a standalone carp streamer.

〇Optional Family Crest and Name Imprinting

※Additional charges apply. Family crest and name imprinting are not included in the set. If you wish to have a name imprinted, please select the optional name imprinting along with the carp streamer set.

For family crest only → 〇 "Family crest included"
For name only → 〇 "Name included"
For both name and family crest → 〇 "Family crest + name included"

A Collaboration of Tradition and Art

The second installment of "Atelier" is "Mitsuhashi Jun's Koinobori," now available for purchase.

We collaborated with dye artist Mitsuhashi Jun to fuse the traditional Japanese culture of koinobori with art, resulting in a new koinobori design.

Mitsuhashi Jun's soft colors and warm painting style bring a new value to koinobori, building upon tradition.

These koinobori are colorful and warm, as if they've sprung directly from a work of art.

Softly Curved, Puffy, and Warm Koinobori

While maintaining the shape of a koinobori, we've eliminated the dorsal fin and kept the design simple, but the charming, distinctive form features soft curves and a large caudal fin. By stitching the tail, air easily accumulates in the belly, allowing for a puffy and characteristic shape when swimming.

Modern Koinobori rooted in Tradition

Mitsuhashi Jun's works are characterized by their modern yet Japanese motifs and color palettes, which allowed us to create a modern koinobori that builds upon tradition. The gentle touch and soft colors blend beautifully with both Japanese and Western styles, and fit well with contemporary home designs.

Connecting Koinobori Swimming Outdoors to the Future

＜Limited Sale of 3m Set Only＞

Due to declining birthrates and housing conditions, koinobori are becoming smaller, and the sight of them swimming outdoors, in their original form, is diminishing. We believe that koinobori gracefully swimming in the sky is their true essence. To ensure that the sight of koinobori swimming on Children's Day does not disappear and to connect them to the future, the goal of this project was to seek new koinobori designs that would suit modern architecture.

With the desire for people to see koinobori swimming outside their homes, this sale is limited to the 3m set only.

To conceive new designs, we commissioned dye artist Jun Mitsuhashi. While employing traditional batik dyeing techniques, he expands his work broadly to include not only flat surfaces but also installations and three-dimensional pieces. We believed that his delicate and gentle sense of color was perfect for creating new koinobori designs.

The warm forms with soft curves and colorful hues were conceived by Mitsuhashi Jun. We considered combinations from numerous design sketches, resulting in these new koinobori.

Gentle Brushstrokes and Warm Colors

To reproduce the charm of Jun Mitsuhashi's works, with their gentle brushstrokes and warm colors, we avoided the traditional stencil dyeing commonly used for koinobori and attempted to recreate the colorful hues and shades. The result is a koinobori with a rich spectrum of colors, a striking contrast to the powerful, traditional stencil dyeing.

Koinobori Production Scene - From Hand to Hand -

Mitsuhashi Jun's works are characterized by their modern yet Japanese motifs and color palettes, which allowed us to create a modern koinobori that builds upon tradition. The gentle touch and soft colors blend beautifully with both Japanese and Western styles, and fit well with contemporary home designs.

1954 Born in Kyoto
2020 Retired from Kyoto City University of Arts

Exhibitions
1988 "Architecture" Spiral
1989 "Art of Kyoto, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
          "International Small-Scale New Three-Dimensional Art Exhibition" Nagoya (1993, 98)
          "Views from the Pacific Rim" USA
          "Restress Shadows" UK tour
1993 "Shiga Annual '93" The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
1994 "The 4th International Textile Competition Kyoto"
          "Contemporary Dyeing" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2000 "Memories of Algae" Rias Ark Museum of Art / Miyagi
2005 "International Tapestry and Textile Art Triennial" Belgium
2007 "Japanese Suppleness" Denmark
2008 "Cloth & Culture Now" UK
2010 "Weaving, Knitting, Expanding: Forms and Colors of Textiles" Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
2012 "collect2012" London (2013, 2014, 2015)
          "SOFA" CHICAGO, Chicago
2014 "Tokyo Art Fair" (2016, 2017)
2015 "Eye, Hand, Heart" Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
2016 "The Box Project" USA tour
2017 "ESSENCE-IKI" Denmark
2021 Solo Exhibition, Galerie Seikando / Kyoto
2022 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Keifu / Kyoto

Awards
1994 The 4th International Textile Competition Kyoto, ITF Art Award
2009 The 22nd Kyoto Art and Culture Award
2012 The 31st Kyoto Prefecture Culture Award, Distinguished Service Award