Amami | Listen Issue

PaperSky #66

Amami | Listen Issue

A trip to the island to listen to Amami to listen to the sound of the island and the voice of the island.

Amami is located between Kagoshima and Okinawa and has an untouched nature and unique culture. The islands, where diverse animal and fauna lives, is also registered as a World Natural Heritage Site and is attracting attention. Against the backdrop of such a rich nature, different cultures in the northern and southern and villages have been nurtured in response to nature in various places. The rhythm of nature and the cycle lives, and people are alive. If you spend a few days in Amami, you can't help but feel that you are part of nature.

This issue listens to various sounds and voices,“now”At the moment, we will feature a trip around with a variety of Amami, while keeping consciousness. The travel guests are Amami's overwhelming nature and migrated, painter and picture book writer Mirokomachiko, and Shinjin Kanai of Kanai Crafts, who continues to express a wide range of dyes. Through the work, we will go around the island with the two who convey Amami's breath, seeking new discoveries and encounters.

 ■ Milokomachiko
1981Born in Osaka Prefecture. Lives in Amami Oshima. A painter and picture book writer who draws the creatures and gains high praise from Japan and overseas. No. 1 in the picture book "Wolf Tobuhi" (East Press)18Received the Japan Picture Best Awards Grand Prize. Books andCDHe has been active in a wide range of activities, live painting, etc. in collaboration with musicians and creators.
www.mirocomachi.com

■Shito Kanai
1979Born in Amami Oshima. Dyeing house. He is the second -generation successor of Kanai Crafts, which perform traditional natural dyeing, including mud dyeing Oshima Tsumugi. Instead of being caught in the concept of traditional crafts, he pursued new value and expression of dyeing, such as dyeing non -cloth such as bones and corals and collaboration with apparel manufacturers and creators.
www.kanaikougei.com

Listen Well. Love More. Be Amami.

How to Well You Listen Willmine YOUR FUTURE. The Future of Amami Islands; One of the World's Most Diverse IOUS SPOTS ON THE EARTH. Amami is at a turning point - One that will determine is future - if All Listen Well, We Have no Double of Amari! THISSUE OFFERS A DIRECT CANAL to Tune Into The Vibration of Amami AND BEGIN a Rney in Which The Ultimate SatisFaction LIES in How I Listen.

 Amami is a 'listNers' paradise. If you are a more of the worHless SPEAKING A GALACTIC UNDERWATER GARGLE. Are the Sounds of the Wind Blowing in Messages from Abroad. If you're A Hiker THERE ARE THE BIRDS OF BIRDS SINGS SINGS SINGS SINGS SAND CHIRPING THEIR SOTHING and Medital Songs. LLS about the alE The Sounds of the Shamisen Being Played about the Neighborhood Each NOTE DRIFTING from ONE HOUSE To the next via Open Windows, Doors, Ears and Hearts.

Traveling and Listening With Trip AREAST, Miroco Machiko and Textile-Dyer YukiHito Kanai. So Listen Up! Make Amami's Future Via the Power of Listening.