Edo Oshi-e, or Edo Oshi-e Embossed Fabric Pictures, are a traditional craft produced around Nihombashi and Asakusa, Tokyo from the late Edo period (1603 - 1867). Today, they are also produced in Sumida ward, Koto ward, Katsushika ward in …

Oct 15, 2023 · Gives instructions for this craft as it is being revived in Japan.

While living in Hawaii with her second husband, she began to assemble her teachings into booklets, and started using the name Contemporary Oshi-e, to distinguish this easy-to-learn and approachable art form from its’ more traditional roots.

Jul 19, 2022 · She lived in Japan for a few years like I did, and that’s where she learned an ancient Japanese art form called “Oshi-e” which she’s been practicing for 50 years now! If you’ve ever wondered if you’re “too old”, Wendy is the perfect inspiration for you.

What is Oshi-e? Simply, all oshi-e is made from a design cut from mat board, backing board or cardboard. Individual pieces are then padded with quilt batting, wrapped with fabric, and re-assembled with glue, much like a jigsaw puzzle.

Oshi-e 押絵 or 押し絵 (literally pressed pictures), sometimes called kurumi-e 包絵 包み絵 くるみ絵 (literally wrapped pictures), are images made from fabric filled out usually with cotton and glued to a backing to make a three dimensional picture. Faces and other features may be hand painted.

After the 17th century, a tradition began of presenting Hagoita paddles to girls on their birthdays and the Oshi-e (padded collage) technique developed for making three-dimensional designs with decorations using cotton-padded cloth.

Here, the ideas behind the clothing, decoration and customs of kabuki intermingled with the world of Japanese drawing and painting, developing to make the Edo Oshi-e of today possible. Oshi-e are used to decorate battledore rackets, portraits, …

The hobby in question is oshi-e — making a picture by cleverly assembling various bits of fabric and pasting them down — then as now a popular pastime for both men and women in Japan. (There is also a variation of the woodblock oshi-e technique in which cotton is stuffed under the fabric to give a piece a three-dimensional look and feel.)

Although oshi-e (literally ‘pressed picture’ and referring to the raised or padded cloth pictures made as a traditional form of Japanese handicraft since the Edo Period), like clay figures, can be found far and wide, the Shōnai oshi-e stood out for the fact that they were created to indulge a pastime, rather than as commercial products.