Three Serizawa kataezome calendar folios, for the years 1957, 1958, and 1959, each calendar with a separate sheet for each month. Folio. Individual calendar leaves measure 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Calendar pages printed on handmade mulberry paper, housed in original mulberry paper sleeves with illustrated title block affixed to front, pages loose in sleeves as issued. Paper sleeve for 1957 calendar detached at one side with some seam splits, the other two intact, calendar pages bright and clean, overall excellent. N.p., 1957-1959.

Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984) was a Japanese textile designer and a master of the art of stencil dyeing, as well as a leader of the Japanese Mingei (folk art and craft) movement. He combined two textile dyeing techniques, the bingata of Okinawa (traditional resist-dyeing) and the Japanese ise-katagami (paper stencils) to create his own kataezome stencil dyeing process. Kataezome is the traditional Japanese technique of stamping stencils on handmade untrimmed Japanese mulberry paper.

Serizawa used the kataezome process to dye kimono fabrics, screens, wall hangings, fans, scrolls, calendars, and quilts. He also produced illustrated books and painted on paper, wood, ceramic, and glass. He helped to design the Kurashiki Ohara Art Museum, and in 1956 was one of the first living artists given the honorific designation of "Living National Treasure", a title bestowed upon him by the Japanese government and which provided him with a small stipend to train apprentices to continue his craft.

Scarce; as of February 2026, OCLC shows very few holdings of Serizawa calendars in institutional libraries, and none of these three years.

Book ID: 53634

Price: $2,500.00