Word: eiko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graphic and Stage Set Designer Eiko Ishioka, who has also worked in the U.S., is just as sanguine about the creative boom: "Japanese design is more flourishing and diverse than ever before." At no time in the roughly 130 years that Japan has traded with the West have its applied arts been so influential abroad. "I've lived with Asian influence all my life," says Eugene Kupper, an architect and UCLA professor, but "today Japan is in the forefront. It's the most exciting it has ever been." While tradition clearly informs some of the best new Japanese design...
Outside of architecture, the issue of tradition is not so pressing. Indeed, designers of graphics and interiors are more unselfconsciously ahistorical, often out-Westernizing the West in seeking novelty for its own sake. "If we steeped ourselves in tradition, we would not be able to create anything," says Eiko Ishioka...
Shintaido participants explain that the Shintaido practice, called Keko, reflects the experience of living--the practice is ritualistic, centering on three main ideas, Tenshingoso or Eiko, Kumite, and the "theme" that the instructor assigns to the practice...
...Eiko is another sequence of movements which expresses the descent of the ideal world on to ours. Eiko can be substituted for Tenshingoso. After Tenshingoso or Eiko the shintaidoists work on Kumite...
Miyake has the strongest kind of signature, emphatic but often elusive, in ( part because he gives his associates a lot of lead. Eiko Ishioka, a gifted art director and one of Miyake's oldest friends, says that "when he was young, Issey lacked confidence and experience, and he could not control his emotional reactions or talent. His staff did not want to be slaves, they wanted to be equals, so he had to change his character...