Kasukabe Oshie Hagoita: Kasukabe's battledore
December 29, 2015"Oshie Hagoita" is a battledore made of Kiri, paulownia wood, decorated with Oshie , a beautiful padded cloth picture. (Usually a hagoita, battledore, is used for a badminton-like game with a shuttlecock. However, a colorfully ornamented hagoita like Oshie Hagoita is primarily for the decoration in the house during the New Year's festivities.)
Oshie, a padded cloth picture, is a technique to cover a cardboard with habutae silk cloths and raise it with the cotton inside. Oshie craftsmen recreate dynamic and energetic poses on a battledore, such as a swaggering posture that a kabuki (Japanese traditional performance art) actor is striking, by changing the amount of cotton to put inside and the ways they wrap the cotton, as well as using different techniques to arrange the cloths.
Read the full article:
Kasukabe Oshie Hagoita: Kasukabe's battledore with a padded cloth picture
Translation by: Mie Nakajima, reviewed by Moe Shoji
Also please visit:
Japanese Traditional Crafts Resource Center
Japanese Traditional Arts Resource Center
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