Earth Day 2021: Healthy Beds for All - AIZOME (North America)

Earth Day 2021: Healthy Beds for All

Oceans are the origin of all life and they’re the basis of a healthy world. If you have recently been to pretty much any beach in the world, you will have noticed, that we have a problem.  A recen...

Samurai Secrets: Three True Stories of Aizome (Indigo Dyeing) - AIZOME (North America)

Samurai Secrets: Three True Stories of Aizome (Indigo Dyeing)

On March 2, 1657, bystanders on the hills west of Edo (present-day Tokyo) were looking down on a city ablaze in a massive ring of fire. It was another display of "the flowers of Edo", as the fires ...

The Fascinating History of Aizome - AIZOME (North America)

The Fascinating History of Aizome

Japanese ukiyo-e maestro Hiroshige's woodblock print, Wakamurasaki, shows a young Prince Genji getting a first glimpse of lady Murasaki in an illustration from Murasaki Shikibu's, The Tale of Genji...