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Yushoku Summer
After learning all forty-six techniques in ten phases, students step up to a new stage and learn "sensibility."
From phase 11 through phase 14, we are not only learning the technique itself but also the color feeling of the four seasons. Yushoku is a stylized motif typical of Japanese embroidery. It means"people with knowledge/occupation." The pattern was only used for the nobility.
The design, color, fabric and techniques used in Phase 11 are specially selected to express the typical Japanese summer feeling.
The idea is to give one an impression of coolness at the same time one feels a bit of the heat of summer. The fabric, called Ro, has a line of holes in the weft valley, to allow the breeze to pass through.
Summer is a
time of vitality. The rice plant grows bigger leaves because of the intense heat and sunlight, it is similar to the younger days of human beings when they can develop their talents.
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