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An icy mountain-patterned yubinuki obi sits above moonlit foothills in this kokeshi whose bun is accented with a silver and glass kanzashi (hair ornament)..

In hanafuda (flower playing cards used in East Asia and Hawaii), the month of April is represented by wisteria, one of my favorite flowers. This kokeshi features both a literal depiction of wisteria in a similar style to the cards, as well as a more abstract yubinuki obi designed to evoke the flowers in full bloom.

Part of a series of yubinuki that play with light refraction, this yubinuki mirrors the way I perceive white light when I look directly at it: it appears edged or haloed in rainbows, an effect I have long sought to replicate in different mediums. By weaving the overlay of white beneath each band of color at strategic points, the white “light” of the yubinuki becomes fractured by rainbows.