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Eiharu Suzuki Meister (Wakaji)

Last Updated January 18, 2024

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Eiji Suzuki (Suzuki)
Japanese dressmaker
Selected in fiscal 1996 (Phase 1)
Lives in Kanagawa Ward

  • Born in Niigata Prefecture in 1945
  • Chairman of the Costume Research Group, Limited
  • First-class Japanese dress technician, Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Japanese dressmaking certification, vocational training instructor
  • He has served as chairman of the Kanagawa Prefectural Wishing Training Association and Chairman of the Federation of Japanese dressmaking organizations.

The job of a dressmaker is to breathe from cloth to kimono.

 "In order to learn the techniques of Japanese dressmaking, it is essential to sew as much as possible than a person and feel the nature of the fabric with your skin." "Cloth fabrics made through many craftsmen, such as weaving, dyeing, and embroidery, can be used to be more wonderful, depending on the tailoring. The work of a dressmaker is the last job of a kimono culture that requires all nerves. Based on the belief that it is one of the jobs of craftsmen to get everyone to know, "We make good things, nurture successors, and develop their skills. Based on the belief that one of the jobs of craftsmen is to get everyone to understand," he has nurtured many backwards at his own dress training schools and has produced top prizewinners at the Skills at the Skills at their own dressmaking training schools and produced high school, etc., and produced top prize winners at the Skill Olympics and skill Olympics and skill Olympics and Skills.
 In addition to passing on skills, he has a high level of insight into the history of clothing and era verification, manages kimono belonging to Sankei Hara's house and restoring Oshima Tsumugi. We are focusing on the spread and preservation of costumes.

Meister's skill

Photo of stitched haori
A sewn-down haori

"Sewn Drop Haori" is made of gauze fabric. The pattern is cut at the hem, turn it back to the back and sew it so that the seam is almost invisible on the front, and the sewing in other parts is cut very thin and sewn in the same way. This technique has been around since the Meiji era, but it has become hardly seen in modern times.

Inlay (cutting) picture of feather kimono
Inlay (cutting) picture feather kimono

"Inlay (cutting) picture feather kimono" is a cloth inlay technique in which the fabric is hollowed out of the fabric in the shape of a pattern you want to put on a cloth, and a separate cloth is inserted into the hollowed place.

A photo of a stylish half-tened picture
Stylishly stylish half sky

"Yinflammation style Hanten" is a piece of fabric with a half sky and a pattern along the pattern, and on the back of a transparent fabric (such as gauze) so that the seam is hardly visible on the front (sew) ), Enjoy the picture that is reflected on the front.

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Photograph of Eiji Suzuki Meister Work

He studied Japanese dressmaking in 1964 by Torayoshi Suzuki, an exclusive tailor of the late Sankei Hara, a businessman who landscaped Sankeien, and became the representative of the costume study group in 1981. In addition, the name of the “Costroom Study Group” was the name of the craftsmen who make kimonos (dyeing, weaving, embroidery, tailoring, etc.) that the Hara family had. It was awarded as a company name. Original techniques such as cutting mating were recognized in Isetan Shinjuku and participated in an exhibition and sales event in 2004. It has been well received and has been held since then in Yokohama Takashimaya.

Major awards

  • (Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) in 2008 (Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare)
  • Received the Medal with Yellow Ribbon in 2009
  • 2016 Yokohama Culture Prize Winner

You can meet Meister's skills here!

Costume Research Group, Ltd.
3-29-11, Kandaiji, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi
Phone: 045-565-9160

For inquiries to this page

Economic Affairs Bureau, Civil Economy and Labor Department

Phone: 045-671-4098

Phone: 045-671-4098

Fax: 045-664-9188

Email address: ke-ginou@city.yokohama.lg.jp

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