"my heart has been stained with your color, and I will never forget it." the Japanese dye weaver horse farm dyed the color of all leaves with vegetation.

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"All my works hope to express the circulation of the four seasons with natural colors." The 10 songs selected from Japan's oldest collection of poems,"The Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves," are on display at the Taipei Botanical Garden's Japanese building, Nanmencho 323. Each and obey plant collection, dye solution boiled to silk thread dyeing, finally woven into cloth, made into kimono, horse farm pearl period are personally, singing the rich colors displayed by thousands of leaves plants.

Among them, the most unique kimono "Amaterasu Great God" has a total of five colors, purple dyed by purple roots, red dyed by red roots, yellow dyed by Kawaan, blue dyed by polygonum blue, and white at the bottom, corresponding to the poem: "Like the purple spots dyed on the clothes of the people who came from Watanabe, my heart has been dyed with your color, never forgotten."

Tensho's kimono has five colors: purple dyed with purple roots, red with red roots, yellow with kasu, blue with polygonum blue, and white on the bottom (Photo_Lin Yijun) The true meaning of kimono: the spirit of cherishing things, true abundance comes from cherishing clothes

The 46-year-old Machinouchi Zhuji, originally interested in ukiyo-e and ancient clothing, later majored in western tailoring,"Kobe earthquake, see the way life is made in large quantities, really rich?" Stimulated her to start making crafts that "can soothe the soul and embody traditional Japanese culture," she began to learn silk dyeing in 2003.

Japan has a lot of records and preservation of kimono culture. Through courses and literature, she learned very well, but she found that the concept of modern kimono is different from that of the past. "In the past, kimonos would be worn for a long time after they were made. In the end, they would be taken down and used when they couldn't be worn. It seems that kimonos are no longer like this."

A kimono can last for decades or even centuries, she explains: Nobles and samurai buy new kimonos at cloth shops, wear them out and sell them to second-hand clothing stores, civilians buy them back and wear them until they are damaged, then they will be reduced for children to wear, and the parts removed will be used to make underwear, scarves and rags. There is no waste at all, and in the end they cannot be burned. The ashes can be used as fertilizer.

The spirit of kimono is to cherish things. She compares western tailoring with kimono. Western tailoring is to cut a whole piece of cloth into the desired shape, while kimono making is made up of pieces of independent cloth. "If the sleeves are dirty or broken, they can be removed and repaired separately or replaced." She gestured on the paper.

Different colors are created at different temperatures and times. It takes three months to collect, dye and weave.

Today's kimonos are mostly made of chemical fibers, which are difficult to decompose in a short time even if buried in the soil. The process of collecting, dyeing, weaving and assembling kimonos takes three months.

"After collecting the plants, dye them quickly while they are fresh." She explained that except for the materials to be dried for use, everything else was boiled immediately after collection within three hours and then stained. "Even if the ingredients are the same, the temperature and cooking time will be different." She pointed to the different shades of color on the kimono, and to prevent discoloration, at least put the wire in the dye and dye it back and forth 3-6 times.

The kimono is a melting snow. It is inspired by the clothing of the characters in Ukiyoe's Beauty Painting. It is presented in different shades of blue. It quotes the poem: "Time enters the first month, spring comes, let's enjoy plum blossoms and enjoy the beauty of spring."