Book of BORO by Yukiko Koide and Hyoichi Tsuzuki | Aomori (JAP) | By Lee Fleming

‘Boro: Rags and Tatters from the Far North of Japan' by Yukiko Koide and Hyoichi Tsuzuki, documents the Japanese ‘boro’ textiles and rag patchworks that grew out of the Aomori Prefecture. Located on the northernmost tip of Honshu, poverty stricken Tohoku (snow country) in Aomori was home to poor farmers who grew and wore hemp clothes out of necessity when the landscape was too cold to grow cotton. This book presents the boro collection of Chuzaburo Tanaka, who roamed the farming and fishing villages of Aomori during the mid 1960s in search of boro.

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