Noboru Teratani

• Category
  Textiles
• Techniques
  Yūzen dyeing, Tsumugi silk
• Born
  1949 -
• Based in
  Kyoto
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  Traditional Craftsman designated by the Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Association Foundation
  Master Craftsman of Kyoto
  Kyoto Tegaki Yuzen Cooperative Association
  Traditional Craftsmen Society
  Sengiren

Style

Creating original design textiles by combining Kyo-Yuzen with batik.

Biography

• 1949
  Born in Kyoto as the first son of textile artist and full member of the Japan Kōgei Association, Iwao Teratani
• 1971
  Starts training under his father to engage in his family business, dyeing
• 1977
  Selected for the 2nd New Artists' Textiles Exhibition
• 1984
  "Flower Kimonos" Exhibition with writer Tomiko Miyao
• 1986
  Submitted to the "Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition" (Japan-Canada art exchange program)
• 1989
  Selected for the Kinki Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time (selected 10 times from this year onward)
• 1991
  Selected for the 38th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time
• 1994
  Selected for the 41st Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 1999
  Designated as Traditional Craftsman by the Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Association Foundation (Ministry of International Trade and Industry)
  Submitted to ”Kyo Yuzen - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" Exhibition (Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo)
• 2000
  Yuzen workshop at University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
  Selected for the 47th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 2016
  Designated as Master Craftsman of Kyoto
• 2018
  Selected for the 65th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (Becomes Full Member of the Japan Kōgei Association)

Awards

• 1991
  Received the Kyoto Governor Award, Kyoto Mayor Award at the Kyoto Tegaki Yuzen Art Exhibition (awarded several times)
• 2018
  Received the Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Director-General Award at the Kyoto Tegaki Yuzen Art Exhibition
• 2021
  Received the Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Director-General Award at the Kyoto Tegaki Yuzen Art Exhibition
• 2024
  Japan Kōgei Association Award, 53rd Kinki Traditional Kōgei Exhibition