Pigment Mixing × Strengths: Creativity & Ideation

For Those Strong in Creativity & Ideation

This collection features jobs that may suit those who are relatively comfortable generating new ideas and concepts.

Creativity holds value not only in artistic fields but in all kinds of work. Both small ideas that improve existing methods and entirely new concepts are expressions of creativity. Additionally, some deepen their thinking alone, while others develop ideas through dialogue with others.

The jobs introduced here tend to offer more opportunities to utilize new ideas. Explore how your creativity can flourish.

6 jobs found.

Atsurae (Custom-Order) Yuzen Worker

Traditional craft artisan who applies hand-drawn Yuzen dyeing to kimono fabric according to customer orders.

Urushi Painting Worker (Ceramics Manufacturing)

Artisan who uses lacquer or pigments to paint and decorate ceramic bisque ware. Inherits traditional techniques while hand-drawing delicate patterns.

Glass Coloring Worker

A profession that colors glass products using pigments or metal oxides and finishes them by firing in a kiln furnace.

Nishikitsuke Worker (Ceramics Manufacturing)

Decorator using overglaze painting (nishikitsuke) technique to apply colored patterns or gold luster designs on ceramics.

Woodblock Print Worker

A profession engaged in the traditional printing technique of carving designs into wooden printing blocks, applying pigments, and richly printing onto washi paper.

Yuzen Dyer

Yuzen dyers are traditional craft technicians who dye patterns on fabrics such as kimonos using the Yuzen dyeing technique. They manually perform processes from underpainting to stencil creation, resist paste application, dyeing, steaming, and scouring.