Musashino Art University / Tama Art University Bureau
Students at Art University studying art and design.
Students at Art University studying art and design.
Kashiwa-mochi is the traditional sweets eaten on Children's Day. When I was a child, I always looked forward to eating the kashiwa-mochi my mother prepared for me at home after school as the Children's Day gets closer. Eat a lot, and grow up. 【Created in 2020】
While children are asleep, KOINOBORI keeps swimming quietly in the darkness in its sleep. 【Created in 2020】
It is customary to display irises on Children's Day to wish for children's healthy growth and progress in learning martial arts. To imbue my work with this meaning, I created a design based on irises. The design embodies the wishes for children's growth, with irises purple color. 【Created in 2020】
Tree rings (nenrin) are formed one at a time, and are also called growth rings. When a tree has grown a lot in a year, it forms a wider ring, and when it hasn't grown much, it forms a narrower one. However, the part with lots of narrower growth rings is hard, and helps the tree become sturdy. Just like trees, people who grow slowly are storing up all their energy for the next stage of growth. 【Created in 2020】
I created this design with the hope that children will eat nutritious fishes so they grow healthily. 【Created in 2020】
This design intention expresses my hope that we can see children running around energetically outdoors soon, as we no longer see such exuberant activity due to the pandemic. I would like children to grow healthily by running around a lot outdoors. 【Created in 2021】
Koinobori (carp streamers) have historically had various meanings, and black was adopted in the early days to wish for the healthy growth of children of warriors. Other colors, such as red, blue, and pink to symbolize family members, were added over time, and they became more colorful. I hope that the story in the background can be enjoyed through a design using symbolic colors. 【Created in 2021】
This koinobori (carp streamer) expresses our thoughts towards children. The parents’ wish for their growth is contained in the bento (lunch box). Such everyday feelings of the family and congratulatory expressions for the Boys’ Festival were combined to express this koinobori with colorful lunch-box ingredients. 【Created in 2021】
By adopting a childlike frame of mind while playing with colored paper, a design emerged featuring “takenoko” (bamboo shoots), which are a symbol of vitality and health. The vivid colors were chosen to express the fun of swimming cheerfully, and to contrast with the blue skies and greenery of early summer. 【Created in 2021】
