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Kyoto Painting & Market
Enjoy walking Nishiki market, Kyoto's kitchin and painting workshop combining two traditional techniques of Kyoto: Yuzen-zome and Tarashikomi. In this experience, you are provided with a pre-drawn shikishi paper board and color it with pigment produced by Uebae-so. Uebae-so has a long history of more than 270 years.
Meeting Point
Kyoto-shiyakusho-mae sta. (Kyoto city hall)
- Meet at Exit 3, on the ground. There are stairs and elevator.
Nishiki market
Nishiki Market is called Kyoto's kitchen where you can enjoy lively market specializes fresh seafood, kitchen tools, and so on. The best thing is you pick up what you like and enjoy at the site like a standing bar.
Workshop venue
Yuzen-zome, or Yuzen-dying was invented by a fun painter Miyazaki Yuzen. His technique features drawing starch frames on silk fabric. The line prevents the color from going over another lines, which allows you to color directly in those lines.
TARASHIKOMI is another style used for Japanese painting. Inventor is Tawaraya Sotatsu who lived in around 15th to 16th century. His famous piece is Fujin-Raijin-zu byobu, translated into wind god and thunder god on the screen. He used his style depicting the clouds under Rraijin. Doing this he presented the natural gradations and intensity of colors.
In this experience, you are provided with a pre-drawn shikishi paper board and color it with pigment produced by Uebae-so. Uebae-so has a long history of more than 270 years, keeping Japanese traditional colors since 1751.
Ending Point
Workshop venur
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Inclusions & Exclusions
Fee of workshop and your paint board
Guide tour
Transportation fee
Food
Tour Important Information
* Please come with casual wear as the workshop includes painting.
Important message from the guide
My core time depends on day.
Monday : 8:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
Tuesday : 8:00-a.m. to 14:30p.m.
Wednesday : 10:00-a.m. to 14:30p.m.
Thursday : NA
Friday : 10:00-a.m. to 8p.m.
Sunday : 10:00-a.m. to 8p.m.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
