Boro: Rags and Tatters from the Far North of Japan linen Date: September 25 - 27

Date: September 25 - 27

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Boro: Rags and Tatters from the Far North of Japan linen Date: September 25 - 27A visual and written documentation of the collection of Chuzaburo Tanaka, who "virtually alone walked the farming and fishing villages of Aomori from the mid 1960s, searching out these traces of the locals' love of fabric known as 'boro'." Beautifully photographed blankets, coats, and other remnants of the impoverished history of Japan's far north are accompanied by contextual anecdotes giving dimension to the fabric and the local area where it was