Kan Takahashi

  • Textiles
  • 1946 -
Kan Takahashi

Membership Full member, Japan Kogei Association
Director and Auditor of Japan Kogei Association
  • 1946 Born in Tokyo
  • 1965 Graduated from Hachioji Technical High School (current Hachioji Soshi High School) Color Dyeing Department
    Studied under Katsuma NAKAMURA (Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property) as apprentice
  • 1969 Selected for the first time for the 9th East Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
    Selected for the first time for the 16th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
  • 1973 Established workshop in Nakano, Tokyo
  • 1990 Restoration Committee member of cultural heritage kimonos, a project lead by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and Japan Kogei Association
  • 1994 Participated in Important Intangible Cultural Property (Yuzen dyeing) Successors' Training Business lead by Mitsugi YAMADA (Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property)
  • 2005 Presided over the "Yuzen-no-kai" and held the "Beauty of Yuzen Dyeing" exhibition at Kitano Cutural Center, Kitano Museum of Art
  • 2007 "The Developing Yuzen Dyeing- Five-person Exhibition" at Wako Hall, Ginza
  • 2010 Becomes Director of Japan Kogei Association
  • 2013 Submitted to "Beautiful Japanese Silk - Yuzen Dyeing" Exhibition held at the Silk Museum
  • 2014 "Creation from Haiku - Dyeing and Calligraphy" Exhibition at Some Seiryu Museum of Art, Kyoto
  • 2015 Submitted to "The Presentness of Traditional Crafts" Exhibition (MOA Museum of Art)
    Kan Takahashi Yuzen Dyeing Exhibition at Sanrengura Gallery, Iida
  • 2016 Ceramics and Yuzen Dyeing Four-person Exhibition at Gallery Inoue, Inoue Department Store, Matsumoto
    Becomes Secretary General of Japan Kogei Association East Japan Branch
  • 2017 First solo exhibition at Ginza Motoji
  • 2019 Assistant at Kunihiko MORIGUCHI's Yuzen Dyeing Successors' Training Workshop
  • 2020 Submitted to "Kogei 2020 - The Art of Crafting Beauty from Nature" (Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
  • 2021 Second solo exhibition at Ginza Motoji
  • ----Present----
    Special member, judge and evaluator at the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition, Textiles Traditional Kōgei Exhibition, and East Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition

  • 2008Received the Incentive Award at the 55th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
  • 2015Received the Incentive Award at the 62nd Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
  • 2017Received the 36th National Costume Cultural Contributor Kimono Culture Award
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