Tsumami Crafts (Tsumami Crafts) - Tsumami Crafts

Japanese: つまみ細工(摘細工) - つまみざいく

Also written as tsumami-zaiku. A type of handicraft in which thin silk or thin crepe is cut into 1-3 cm squares, folded into triangles with tweezers, and attached to paper to create shapes of flowers, birds, insects, fish, etc. Around the middle of the Edo period, it became fashionable to wear hairpins made with tsumami-zaiku in Shimada-mage hairstyles, and until women's hairstyles were westernized, they were called "hana-kanzashi" or "hana-gushi" and were the main head ornaments for girls and young women, but their use has decreased and they are only seen in hair ornaments, hagoita (battledoes), and kusudama (balloon decorations). Tsumami-zaiku has been practiced as a handicraft by women since the Edo period, but elaborate products with flower cores and other ornaments decorated with moire were also produced commercially.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

撮細工とも書く。手芸の一種で，薄い絹または薄いちりめんを1～3cmの角形に切り，ピンセットで三角形に折って，紙に張りつけ，花鳥または虫魚などの形に作るもの。江戸時代の半ばころ，摘細工を応用したかんざしを島田髷にさすことが流行し，女性の髪が洋髪に移るまでは〈花かんざし〉〈花ぐし〉と呼ばれて，少女や若い女性の頭飾品の主要なものであったが，いまは減少し，髪飾，羽子板，くす玉などにわずかに見られる。つまみ細工は江戸時代から女性の手芸として行われたが，花のしんなどにモール細工を施したりした精巧な品が商品としても作られた。

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