"Japan is one of the most advanced countries in terms of technology and industry, but paradoxically among the most advanced countries is one of the least internationalized. Not that there is no trace of foreign culture, on the contrary, Japan has attracted all the technical culture of the world, but he also managed to regenerate inside a code expressive own extremely efficient. "
Andrea Branzi
In the years following World War II the Japanese displayed a frenetic energy to rebuild its economy and became the first countries industrialized Asia. He then had to quickly integrate Western technology and numbers of objects foreign to its culture, but without ever losing its aesthetics and philosophy.
At this time we do not alarmed environmental problems and the authorities had same interest in keeping people in ignorance. But after several environmental disasters (1975 photochemical smog, air pollution and water, recognition of Minamata disease, nuclear reactor accident), Japan is, earlier than other advanced countries awareness of ecological issues and becomes active in the fight against pollution. However, with a dense and urbanized population that makes the solution of disposable hygiene modern Japanese (tissues, rods, covers, umbrellas ...), Japan is faced with a problem of waste management.
Return to furoshiki, instead of the plastic bag is part of a new environmental policy of public authorities, backed by associations. The question is no longer wonder how to inject a new technology or feature resulting from the West to a traditional Japanese subject, but how reinstate a traditional object in a modernized civilization now?
In 2006 a conference of the Japanese environment minister extolling the merits of a furoshiki recycled plastic and an exhibition of furoshiki customized by artists in vogue in the fashionable district of Ginza, are few moments of this reintroduction attempt.
A year later, what does? Except in a few stores like Sou Sou trend or a few traditional shops Kyoto, furoshiki has not flooded the streets in Tokyo, but it is found reinterpreted in Western countries.
Ironically, the game of globalization, a return to traditional values and an appreciation of Japanese culture to face ecological, thus finds its fulfillment outside of Japan.
furoshiki edited by Pa Design In Japan, there is a whole tradition of folding and knotting from square surfaces:
Paper first, following the art of origami , folding originally intended for children or the Orikata, fold used to make Noshi Bukuro (gift envelopes available at the O- Chugen in July-August, and O- Seibo in December). These envelopes are formed with an m izuhiki (traditional string). This tradition comes in sheets of seaweed also in the design of sushi and maki .
Cloth finally, the art of hirazutsumi (平 包 "flat pack"), the art of tying the tissues back to the time Nara (710-794).
during the Edo period, during which the public baths (sento) were in vogue, the term becomes Furoshiki (风 吕 敷). We then used a square of fabric folded to carry on business or for wiping unfolded. (F uro means bath and Shiku spread).
Thereafter its use has extended to the transport and protection of objects as the bento (lunch box) and gifts. It can also be used as clothing: hat, bag, scarf and as decorative elements: planters, cup of fruit set. From this simple fabric can be born a multitude of forms and functions.
leaflet distributed by the Ministry of Environment
There are about 20 types of furoshiki different, their size ranging between 20 and 240cm, the most common size is 75cm and 45cm of the most popular. There are a wide variety of materials, colors and designs from traditional to modern.
can identify three ways to fold the furoshiki:
- hirazutsumi (平 包み) just folded
- hitotsumusubi (一つ 結び) folded and tied with a single node
- futatsumusubi (二つ 結び) folded and tied with two knots
Hence the number of models are available fold:
1. Hirazutsumi is one of the most graceful folds wrapping a gift, often in a silk crepe furoshiki .
2. Otsukaizutsumi folding is in the best practice square objects.
3. Binzutsumi can wrap one or more bottles (two bottles for a node, two nodes for a bottle)
4. Kakushizutsumi is a variation of otsukaizutsumi , the difference being that the knot is hidden inside. It is a folding used for packing souvenirs, gifts or heavy objects. The first two corners are tied together, the third corner formed passes under the node and the last corner is folded so as to hide the knot.
5. Makizutsumi is the method used for packaging articles such as cylindrical rollers or boxes of tea.
6. Hikkakezutsumi ( Futatsu, kousa, and yotsu ) is a two-node method for packing rectangular boxes. It is used when the length of the diagonal is not large enough to be tied. The two corners facing each other on the short side of the box 's roll and are tied with the nearest corner on the long side.
7. Suikazutsumi is the method used to wrap round objects such as watermelons. The two corners are tied side by side forming two loops. One node is passed under the other loop and forms the handle to carry the object.
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