JIBARI

Hanging lanterns — cochin — were used to illuminate the passage ways of Edo Japan at nightfall. Pleasure seekers of the ukiyo would revel in the evening beneath the flicker and glow, stumbling deeper into “the floating world” and succumbing to the darkness. Handwoven to evoke the bones of these lanterns, Jibari, after jibari-shiki, is tactile and alluring, its beamed structure casting shadows and light upon its own complexion in a provocative, eternal dance.