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Emi
Aoi Collection
(Accents for the home:
modern folding screens and hanging-scrolls) | "I
would like to introduce to those at home and abroad the beauty of Japan found
in such unique materials as handmade paper and silk kimono material." This
is why Emi Aoi always makes use of these special materials when creating her original
artwork and designs.
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| Emi
Aoi | | | Designer
of the "Emi Aoi Collection" | |
| and creator of original folding screen and hanging-scroll
artwork | |
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| | After
graduating from college in 1983, Emi Aoi put the knowledge acquired
from her
marketing and management business major to work and started
her own company,
producing promotion videos for overseas audiences on
behalf of Japanese companies,
and promoting artists both in Japan and
abroad. She acted as an international
friendship ambassador for the city of
Nagoya in Japan, was selected as Miss
Nagoya in 1983, and has
participated in various sister city exchanges, visiting
such cities as
Los Angeles, Sydney, and Nanjing (China). | |
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| She holds a particular interest
in international exchange, with her eyes set
on the intrinsic value to be
found in the exchange of "information, goods,
and culture." She
has directed the planning and producing of many
international conventions,
as well as domestic and overseas art exhibitions.
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| Through these kinds of international
events, as she viewed her own culture
from a foreign perspective, Emi Aoi's
personal interest grew in the unique
aspects of Japanese artistic materials
and techniques, and she began to
study ink painting and Japanese traditional
mounting techniques. She
later added folding screens and hanging-scrolls to
her repertoire of
original artwork design and began to present her work to
the public with
personal exhibitions in such countries as Japan, Taiwan, Hawaii,
and Italy.
since 1993, the Emi Aoi Collection has been established as an interior
decorator brand in Hawaii, with folding screens, interior decorations,
accessories,
and other original Japanesque designs being sold in the
Liberty House Department
Store and interior decorating shops. | |
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