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| + February 16, 2007 |
| Harakoushu, a female doll artist, appeared
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Harakoushu
appeared in the “New Family” newspaper,
which provides the residents in the area along
the Sobu railway line and Joban railway line
with community-based information for daily life.
The dolls of a female doll artist, Harakoushu
are introduced in an article titled “Heartwarming ･･･Hina
dolls (The dolls for the young girl’s festival)
using the technique of kimekomi,” prior
to “Hinamatsuri (The doll festival for
girls)” that comes soon.
The "New Family" newspaper is a local magazine introducing information
for daily life, which is inserted into morning newspapers of the Yomiuri Shimbun
and Asahi Shimbun on every Friday. It was first launched in April 1983 and a
total of 402,147 copies (as of December 2006) are published with 260,836 copies
of Keiyo version, and 141,311 copies of Joban version.
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here to visit the website of the “New Family” newspaper.
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| + February 10, 2007 |
| Harakoushu, a female
doll artist, appears in a TV program, "Ladies
4," broadcast on TV Tokyo |
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Harakoushu, a female
doll artist, appears in "Ladies 4," a
hit program, (16:00-16:55) of TV Tokyo on Thursday,
February 15. The theme of the program of that
day is “Stroll in Asakusabashi - The doll
wholesale store and Okazu Yokocho, a dish alley.” Harakoushu
will be broadcast as an only shop with a doll
artist in Asakusabashi, the town of dolls.
On the program, the reporter Kyoko Watanabe visits
our shop, and talks with Harakoushu lively. Harakoushu
herself talks about “the origin of the
Harakoushu’s original Hina dolls with faces
of babies,” “About the technique
of the intangible cultural asset,” and “Pleasure
and hardship of the doll-making,” etc.
together with the demonstration of the doll-making. |
Reference
“Ladies 4” of TV Tokyo
(Digital TV: 7ch, Analog TV: 12ch) is a program
broadcast on every Monday through Friday at 16:00
- 16:55.
It is a popular live broadcasting program among
women that is offering various types of information,
which is useful for daily lives regardless of the
genre. It started in May 1983, and is a completely
established long-running information program as
the lead program on weekday daytime.
Website of “Ladies 4”: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/ladys4/ |
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| + January 15, 2007 |
| The interview appeared
in "Fuji Sankei Business i. |
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The
interview of Harakoushu appeared in the daily
newspaper "Fuji Sankei Business i" that
was published by the Nihon Kogyo Shimbun
Company Limited of the Sankei Newspaper Group.
"Fuji Sankei Business i" is a comprehensive economic newspaper which
is published by the Nihon Kogyo Shimbun Company Limited of the Sankei Newspaper
Group. The interview of Harakoushu was published in the column of "Shigotobito" of
the morning newspaper dated January 15, 2007 of this paper. This interview was
conducted at our company the other day, and the attitude and the feelings of
Harakoushu for the doll-making are written in details through the eyes of a journalist
in this article.
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here to visit the website of "Fuji Sankei
Business i"
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| + March 3, 2006 |
| Featured in the first issue of the
quarterly magazine “Life Is Art” |
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The
dolls of Harakoushu appeared in the first issue
(issued on February 25, 2006) of “Life
Is Art,” an artistic life proposal magazine,
which is published by Biken
International Co., Ltd.
In the feature article titled "Admire the Rinpa School! The Flowering of
Japanese Design", Reiji Hiramatsu, a master of Japanese-style painting,
talked about the charm of Japanese design, and Hina dolls (Dolls for the Young
Girl’s Festival) and Gogatsu dolls (Dolls for the Boy’s Festival)
of Harakoushu were published in the page of "Japanese design in our daily
life,"
>> Click here to see the image
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