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Relay Column: The Notion of "Anyone Can Participate" – From the Perspective of Clothes Making & Japanese Traditional Music Studies (kengoshimiz)
PROFILE
kengoshimiz
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1996. Graduated from the Fashion Course at the Department of Scenography, Display, and Fashion Design, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University in 2019. Started making clothes and composing music on his own from high school, and launched a production that used programming during college. Interested in "structure" and "system," he is currently engaged in the construction of composition theory of traditional Japanese music and the creation of new traditional Japanese music.
My first experience making clothes was when I was a first-year high school student.
With the help of my grandmother, I managed to create several outfits by asking questions whenever I was unsure of something. Eventually, I began making my own clothes at a pace of one piece per week, guided by a thick book called "洋裁百科(Yousai-hyakka)."
I bought affordable fabric from Nippori Textile Town, created new clothes from patterns, and enjoyed my high school days in Harajuku with friends who loved fashion.
It was this experience that led me to choose a path specializing in fashion at Musashino Art University.
Below is a simple website where I have published photos of the clothes I have made so far.
https://kengoshimiz.jp/clothesphoto.html
With the help of my grandmother, I managed to create several outfits by asking questions whenever I was unsure of something. Eventually, I began making my own clothes at a pace of one piece per week, guided by a thick book called "洋裁百科(Yousai-hyakka)."
I bought affordable fabric from Nippori Textile Town, created new clothes from patterns, and enjoyed my high school days in Harajuku with friends who loved fashion.
It was this experience that led me to choose a path specializing in fashion at Musashino Art University.
Below is a simple website where I have published photos of the clothes I have made so far.
https://kengoshimiz.jp/clothesphoto.html
On the other hand, when I turned 25, I started on the path to create new music, specifically traditional Japanese music.
I was fortunate to meet a master of traditional Japanese music, Motoya Miyauchi, but obtaining information was extremely difficult, and it was challenging enough to write a few pieces of music that were about four bars long each month.
I was fortunate to meet a master of traditional Japanese music, Motoya Miyauchi, but obtaining information was extremely difficult, and it was challenging enough to write a few pieces of music that were about four bars long each month.
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