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A Color Character a Day with Japanese Artist @m.y1010

Check out all of Mika’s color characters by following @m.y1010 on Instagram.

(This interview was conducted in Japanese.)

Mika Yamada’s (@m.y1010) initial inspiration for her “aya-moji” (color characters)? Kimono artisans from the 1600s through the 1800s. “The more I learned about design patterns and their names, the more impressed I was with the creativity of the designers back in the Edo period,” says Tokyo-based Mika, who shared a new, intricate paper aya-moji every day last year. “I cut out the character 桜 [cherry tree] when cherry blossom season was officially announced, and a combination of the character 大 [big] and snowflake patterns for the 21st season on the lunar calendar to express the solar term 大雪 [major snow].” Mika hopes to continue this daily practice in 2016.

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