Beauty Looking Back Miku Embroidery Art

Product Name: Beauty Looking Back Miku Embroidery Art

This is a collaboration connecting history through the sewing work of an embroidery artisan.
This product features the key visual turned into embroidery art.
This embroidery art piece is an item made with embroidery and sublimation printing on plain fabric. It has the dignified three-dimensionality and warmth that is typical of embroidery. By pairing that with the sublimation printing’s details and color, this piece has a unique appearance that will make you want to touch it.

Beauty Looking Back Miku
“Beauty Looking Back Miku” was created as part of the Haniwa of Dancing People and Beauty Looking Back Conservation Project held by the independent administrative corporations of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, the Tokyo National Museum, and the National Center for the Promotion of Cultural Properties. A portion of the sales from the collaboration merchandise will be donated to the Tokyo National Museum to restore cultural properties housed there, such as the Dancing People (Terracotta Tomb Figurines) and Beauty Looking Back.

This project is the second collaboration with Miku following the Korin Kimono Miku in June 2020.

The key visual of Beauty Looking Back Miku was created by Rella, an illustrator who works both within and outside of Japan.

This moment of Miku turning around in a vivid red, long-sleeved kimono with her bangs tied back with a paper cord in the Fukimaegami style uses Hishikawa Moronobu’s Beauty Looking Back as a motif. The pattern on her kimono features cherry blossoms and chrysanthemums in a circular pattern to mimic hanamaru flower seals. Her obi sash is tied in the Kichiya-musubi style, which was associated with popular stage actors of the time period, so you can see glimpses of Edo Period fashion in her style of dress.

You can participate in activities that directly affect the future of precious cultural properties by purchasing merchandise!

◆ Click here for more details on the Haniwa of Dancing People and Beauty Looking Back Conservation Project.
https://www.tnm.jp/150th/project/fundraising.html

Comments from the illustrator

I learned about the conservation project between the Tokyo National Museum and the National Center for the Promotion of Cultural Properties upon participating in the collaboration between the Korin Kimono and Hatsune Miku in 2020.
I feel like there is great value in a project that matches the conservation of precious cultural properties to a modern era, so I’m honored to participate.
Nothing could make me happier than if my Beauty Looking Back Miku illustration helps you gain an interest in valuable cultural properties and decide to participate in the conservation project.

Illustrator - Rella

Rella
An illustrator and designer. She’s known for their delicate use of color and unique use of light. Her character designs are well renowned, and she has designed a number of figures. She draws a lot of Hatsune Miku illustrations in her personal time and uploads them to her social media. She has been involved in many projects such as Hatsune Miku NT, the Hatsune Miku Symphony series, and Hatsune Miku Chronicle, as well as designing the outfit and participating in the music video for Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku. Outside of her activities with Hatsune Miku, she has also worked in a variety of fields, such as on the bilibili 10th Anniversary Pure White Love 2233 Memorial Figure and Craft Essences for Fate/GrandOrder.
https://twitter.com/rellakinoko

Hatsune Miku
This software developed by Crypton Future Media Inc. can sing a song just by inputting the lyrics and melody. A large number of creators have been using Hatsune Miku to create and upload music on the internet, starting a sudden movement. It has gained attention as a character and virtual singer and has become popular around the world in various genres, including selling merchandise and performing live.
https://piapro.net

Tokyo National Museum
The Tokyo National Museum (TNM) began in 1872 (Meiji 5) with an exposition held at the Yushima Seido Confucian shrine in Tokyo. We focus on treasured art objects, historical documents, and archaeological objects of Japan as well as East Asia and other parts of Asia with professional care. We constantly strive to make your visit as enjoyable as possible by committing ourselves to our work, which are: researching and studying current and new collection pieces; exhibiting them in an easily accessible manner; further improving your stay by offering lectures and gallery talks (mostly in Japanese).