To make the job for artisans of both western and Japanese sewing technique ,

KUDEN makes more opportunity that people all over the world and Japanese young age touch the kimono culture in their daily life and aims for the brand who pass the culture and interests on kimono by our Next Kimono “Samurai Mode Series” without special technique to wear kimono.

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Sakijudayu Toyotake, a tayu (narrator) of Bunraku puppet theater and a kimono wearer in his daily life, as a global ambassador of KUDEN.

In addition to modeling for the Samurai Mode Series, we are planning a variety of collaborations, including interviews about puppet theater and kimonos.

*1…More about Next Kimono is from here.

*2…The story about sewing factory Marron went bankrupt is on here.

Special interview

Ambassador × Designer

"Encounter with Japanese tradition Ningyo Joruri Bunraku"

Part1

2023.04.28

Part2

2023.05.05

Part3

2023.05.12

— Everything has been passed down from generation to generation through repeated changes.

豊竹咲寿太夫

Toyotake Sakijudayu

[Greeting]

A kimono is 'something to wear'. Very simple indeed.

It is inevitable that the style of what we wear changes with the passage of time.

Universality and innovation exist at the same time in the functional beauty of the kimono, which is sublimated into the modern life we live, backed by the functional beauty that accompanied the life in the past.

There is no boundary in the irreversible flow of time between the old and the new, and everything has been passed down from generation to generation through repeated changes.

That is the oral tradition, KUDEN.

Welcome, come on, be with us.