Kyoto is a city in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. Kyoto is one of the few Japanese cities that still have an abundance of prewar buildings such as the traditional townhouses know as Machiya. However, modernization is continually breaking down the traditional Kyoto in favor of newer architecture, such as the Kyoto Station complex.
Kyoto became a city designated by government ordinance on 1st September, 1956. Currently Kyoto hosted the conference that resulted in the protocol on greenhouse gas emissions that bears the city’s name.

Although ravaged by wars, fires, and earthquakes during its 11th centuries as the imperial capital, Kyoto was spared from the firebombing of World War II. With its 2000 Buddhist temples and Shinto Shrines, as well as places, gardens and architecture intact, it is one of the best preserved cities in Japan. Among the most famous temples in Japan are Kyomizu-dera, a magnificent wooden temple supported by pillars off the slope of a mountain, Kinkaku-ji, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Ginkaku-ji, the Temple of the Silver Pavilion, and Ryoan-ji, famous for its rock garden. The Hian Jingu is a Shinto shrine, built in 1895, celebrating the Imperial family and commemorating the first and last emperors to reside in Kyoto. There special sites have connections to the imperial family, the Kyoto Gyoen area including the Kyoto Imperial Palace and Sento Imperial Palace, homes of the Emperors of Japan for many centuries, Katsura Imperial Villa, one of the nation’s finest architectural treasures, and Shugaku-in Imperial Villa, one of its best Japanese gardens.
The Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto are listed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. These include the Kamo Shrines, Kyo-o-Gokokuji, Kyomizu-dera, Daigo-ji, Ninna-ji, Tenryu-ji, Rokuon-ji, Jisho-ji, Ryoan-ji, Hongan-ji, Kozan-ji and the Nijo Castle, primarily built by the Tokugawa shoguns.

Kyoto is renowned for its abundance of delicious Japanese foods and cuisine. The special circumstances of Kyoto as a city away from the sea and home to many Buddhist temples resulted in the development of a variety of vegetables peculiar to the Kyoto area called Kyo-yasai.

We would like to introduce the culture and real traditional products of Kyoto for you.

What is SUDARE

SUDARE is screens or blinds in Japan. They are sometimes called MISU as well. SUDARE were made of slats of decorative wood, bamboo, or other natural material woven together with simple string, colored yarn, or other decorative material to make nearly solid blinds. They could be either rolled or folded up out of the way.
SUDARE is used in many Japanese homes to shield the verandah and other openings of the building from sunlight, rain and insects. They are normally put up in spring and taken down again in autumn. The light structure allows breezes to pass through, a benefit in the hot Japanese summers. Since the building materials are easy to find, and can be made cheaply. Modern SUDARE are used for other usage like interior in the room in Japan now.
With the dawn of modernity, the production of SUDARE went into decline and became a traditional handicraft, but still are sold and shipped abroad by various companies from Japan.

Career

1936 : born in Kyoto Japan
1958 : succeed to this father’s business as second generation as

IBUKI SUDARE manufacture
from 1997 to 2004 : worked for Kyoto SUDARE Association as a chairman
2000 : Selected as the best master of traditional craftsman in Kyoto