先人の叡智

輪島での木地の打合せの前夜は、頭の中でデザインがぐるぐる回ってほとんど眠れなかった。木地のデザインは頭の中では決まっており、あとはスケッチに起こすだけだったので、睡眠時間を確保することを優先して眠りにつき、スケッチは金沢行きの新幹線の中で描き上げることにしたが、ずっとどうするか考えていたので、脳が急にはクールダウンできず、眠りについても頭の中でカップが舞い、脳が勝手に考えていて、イメージが飛び交っていた。ただ、そのおかげなのか、翌朝の頭は、寝てないにもかかわらず、スッキリしていて、よく冴え渡っていた。

新幹線の中でスケッチを起こしながら、ずっと気掛かりだったのは、このスケッチの通りに木地をつくることができるのだろうか、ということ。非対称の形の漆器など見たことがなかったから。

この時は、もし輪島の木地屋さんでつくれないならば、つくれるところを日本全国捜し回ろうと考えいた。そのくらい、この木地のデザインが気に入っていたし、このカップのデザインが良いか悪いかを自分自身で見極めるためにも実際に形にして実現したかった。

輪島までは金沢からレンタカーで1時間半から2時間くらい、4月に訪れたが、天気がよく、日本海の海面がキラキラしていたのをよく覚えている。

輪島の塗師屋の家は昔から、塗師屋造りという職住同居の建築になっているのが特徴。私が通う塗師屋の家もその造りで、その特徴は平面計画にあり、職住同居は普通の町屋造りも同じですが、普通の町屋造りの場合は仕事場が道路側、住居が奥ですが、塗師屋造りはその配置が逆で、住居が道路側で、仕事場が奥。

輪島塗の背景には文化があり、その昔は輪島の塗師は行商しながら全国を周る文化の伝道師だったそうです。全国で見聞きした文化資産を輪島に持ち帰り、それを輪島塗の創作に生かす。家の中で文化的位置を占めるのが住居部分だから、毎日そこを通り仕事場へ行く、文化資産を創作に生かすための平面計画という訳です。

仕事場が奥なので、お客様用の玄関は住居部分と仕事場の境目にあり、道路から建物の側面を通りお客様用玄関へ行く。

その塗師の仕事場にはたくさんの漆器が見本として置いてあり、それだけでも一見の価値があるので、毎度そこへ行くと、塗師のご主人が席を外した隙に、ひとり見入っては「これいいな」とか「おー」とか「欲しいこれ」などと独り言を言って興奮していた。

木地屋さんとの打合せの後、塗師のご主人が大正時代から伝わる見本図録を見せてくれた。そこには今までに見たことがなく、この仕事場にある見本の中にもないような形のお椀がたくさん載っており、その素晴らしい形の数々に思わず見入ってしまった。このような見本図録の現代版はないらしい。仮にあっても、ここに出てくる形以外の物を創作するのは難しい気がするくらい、すでにお椀の形は考え抜かれている、というのが実感。むしろ現代の方が何も考えないで形を扱っている気がしてしまう。

今回、フリーカップの木地をデザインする上で、単純な恣意的形態操作にならないように気をつけていたが、この見本図録を見ていると、ふくよかな丸みを帯びた魅力的な形が多いこと、どうしたらこのような豊潤で魅惑的な丸みが出せるのだろうか、文化資産を創作に生かしてきた輪島塗の伝統の奥深さ故なのか、さんざん形を考えた後だっただけに、この見本図録に載っているお椀の形の素晴らしさや先人の叡智にただただ敬服するしかなかった。

"Predecessor's wisdom"

On the eve of the meeting of wooden plants in Wajima, the design went round about in the head and I could hardly sleep. The design of the woodlands was decided in the head, and the only thing that woke up in the sketch was to give priority to ensuring sleeping time, so we decided to sketch in the Shinkansen to Kanazawa for priority However, as I was thinking about what to do all the time, the brain could not cool down suddenly, the cup was dancing in my head asleep, the brain was thinking without permission, and the image was flying around. But, thanks to that, the head of the next morning was refreshing, despite not sleeping, was well well-kept.

While raising a sketch in the Shinkansen, I was worried for a long time, is it possible to make woodlands according to this sketch? I have never seen asymmetrical shaped lacquerware.

At this time, if I could not make it with Wajima's wooden store, I thought about looking around Japan all the time. About that, I liked the design of this woodland, I also wanted to realize in real shape to see if the design of this cup is good or bad on my own.

We reached Wajima from Kanazawa about one and a half to two hours by a rental car and visited in April, but I remember well that the sea level of the Sea of ​​Japan was sparky with good weather.

The house of Wakajima's paint shop has long been a feature that it is a co-owner-shop building that lives together with a job place. The painter's house I go through is also made, its characteristics are in the planning plan, the living in the same place with the job is the same as in ordinary town houses, but in the case of ordinary town shop building the work place is on the road side, the residence is in the back, The painting shop building is opposite in arrangement, the residence is on the roadside, and the workplace is at the back.

There is culture in the background of Wajima coat, and in the past Wakajima 's painter was said to have been a mission evangelist of the culture which goes around the country while peddling. Take the cultural assets you have heard throughout the country to Wajima and make use of it to the creation of Wajima coat. Because it is the residence part occupying the cultural position in the house, going to the workplace every day passing there, plan plan to make use of cultural assets in creation.

Since the workplace is behind, the entrance for the customer is at the boundary between the residential area and the workplace, going from the road to the side of the building and going to the customer's entrance.

There are plenty of lacquer ware in the workplace of the painter, as it is worth a look, even just that, as you go there every time, in the gap where the husband of the painter took off his seat, I was excited to say himself as saying "Oh" or "I want it".

After the meeting with the wooden store, the master of the painter showed us a sample catalog transmitted from the Taisho era. I have never seen it before, so many bowls of shapes that are not in the sample in this workshop are on board and I have noticed a lot of its wonderful shapes. There seems to be no modern version of such a sample catalog. Even if there is, even if it seems to be difficult to create things other than the one that comes out here, I feel that the shape of the bowl has already been thought out. Rather, I feel that modern people deal with shapes without thinking anything.

Although I was careful not to become a simple arbitrary form manipulation in designing the free cup wooden place this time, looking at this sample catalog, a fascinating rounded and attractive shape It is a lot, how can we have such enriched and fascinating roundness, whether it is because of the depths of the Wajima coat tradition that we have been making use of cultural assets in our creation, after thinking about Shanzan shape I just had to admire the splendor of the shape of the bowl in the sample book and the wisdom of the predecessor.