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Samiro Yunoki was born in 1922. In 1947 he began to work at the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki in Okayama prefecture, a town with rich traditions and a centre of Japanese folk crafts (mingei). While at the museum Yunoki saw a calendar designed by Keisuke Serizawa, a master craftsman in the art of stencil-dyeing (katazome). The calendar featured bold patterns printed on rich textured handmade paper. This inspired Yunoki to study the mingei traditions being revived under the guidance of Soetsu Yanagi in a group which included the potters Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. Yunoki decided to devote himself to the study of katazome and armed himself with a letter of introduction from Yanagi when he traveled to Tokyo to meet of Yui in Shizuoka prefecture, not far from Mount Fuji.
In 1949 Yunoki exhibited at the Kokugakai Tenrankai (a society exhibiting Japanese Arts and Crafts), and has continued to do so ever since eventually becoming its President. In 2003 he led the society in presenting the opening exhibition of the Baillie Scott house, Blackwell on the shores of Windermere following its refurbishment.
Yunoki was elected President of the Women’s College of Fine Art in Tokyo, a position he held until his retirement in 1991. He has held two exhibitions in Paris in recent years and most recently exhibited at the Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo in May 2013.

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Exhibition
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Dyeing Textiles of Samiro Yunoki
-patterns and colors-

April 3rd (Tue) - June 24th (Sun), 2018?@
The Japan Folk Crafts Museum
4-3-33 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo

La danse des formes - Texitiles de Samiro Yunoki

8 October 2014 - 12 January 2015?@
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6, place d’Iena?@75116 Paris

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4 Octpber 2014-19 April 2015
Iwate Museum of Art
12-3, Matsuhaba, Motomiya, Morioka, Iwate 020-0866 Japan
Phone.+81-19-658-1711

HUMOR in COLOUR
Textures and textiles by Yunoki Samiro

3-22 February 2014
Michaelhouse
in the Michaelhouse Centre Cafe, Trinity Street, Cambridge
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2013.05.02-8.18?@
Setagaya Art Museum



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2013.4.17-4.30
Ginze MITSUKOSHI 8F Gallery

Yunoki's works of Art Textiles & Prints etc

2013.1.10-4.13
Iwatate folk textile museum

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Yunoki Sarmiro

2012.4.7-6.10
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex

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2011.11.7-11.23
CRAFT SPACE wa

Yunoki Samiro 2011

2011.10.8-11.6
Gallery TOM

Yunoki Samiro
2010
2010.10.1-10.17
GALERIE L'EUROPE

55, rue de Seine, 75006 PARIS
tel:01 55 42 94 23
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2010.9.7-9.20
Gallery TOM

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2010.6.3-6.20
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2009.10.3-10.24
GALERIE L'EUROPE

55, rue de Seine, 75006 PARIS
tel:01 55 42 94 23
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2009.6.5-6.28
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2009.4.25-5.31
Gallery TOM


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2008.10.3-10.31
GALERIE L'EUROPE

55, rue de Seine, 75006 PARIS
tel:01 55 42 94 23
The Works of YUNOKI Sarmito
2008.5.27-6-29
The Okayama prefectural Museum of Art
Oyamazaki villa,
Samiro YUNOKI's Dyeing Works
2008.2.20-5.11
Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum Art

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