2026 Yotsume Somefusha Calendar

2026 Yotsume Senpusya Calendar

The landscapes of daily life woven by Japan's changing seasons. Each page is layered as if dyed on fabric, creating a calendar for the year.


Yotsume Senpusya Calendar 2026
For the 2024 and 2025 Yotsume Senpusya calendars, the motifs were inspired by the climate of Kyushu, as the artist was living in Oita Prefecture at the time.

This time, instead of focusing on the climate specific to a particular region, the design revisits Japan's rich seasonal landscapes, with a greater emphasis on the changing natural environment.






Everyday small things, like rain, sunlight, and the pleasantness of the wind, can feel special.
For the 2026 calendar, I envisioned expressing such everyday nature and the four seasons of Japan.


The last page contains the thoughts of dyer Mr. Ono about the patterns for each month.
The printing is done with a special ink, like a woodblock print, and the paper quality varies for each month, resulting in a rich texture.

We hope you enjoy spending time with this calendar, looking forward to a new month with each turn of the page.






Yotsume Senpusya is a dye workshop presided over by designer Toyokazu Ono, who handles the textile design.
They mainly dye fabrics using traditional Japanese dyeing techniques such as Katazome (stencil dyeing) and Tsutsugaki (freehand paste resist dyeing), creating clothing, noren (split curtains), tenugui (hand towels), and other fabrics for daily life.
Recently, they have also been incorporating natural dyes and print dyeing, creating a diverse range of works without being confined to Katazome.

【Yotsume Senpusya 】

At the tip of Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita Prefecture.
Yotsume Senpusya is located in a nature-rich area surrounded by a calm sea and gentle mountains.




●●● Dyeing for Everyday Life ●●●

We aim to create works that add a special touch to daily life.
We hope that encountering Yotsume's dyed fabrics will be a refreshing experience and brighten your daily life, even just a little.




Using dyeing techniques such as Katazome (stencil dyeing) and Tsutsugaki (freehand paste resist dyeing),
most processes are done by hand.
Fabrics dyed by hand possess a unique "ambiguity" that cannot be achieved by machines.

The outlines of lines may be blurred, or the print slightly misaligned.
While these are unintended elements,
this "ambiguity" is somehow interesting and conveys the warmth of human hands.
We aim to create such fabrics.

Yotsume Senpusya / Toyokazu Ono

1982 Born in Hiroshima Prefecture
2003 Graduated from Hiroshima Art School, Graphic Design Department
2004 Apprenticed in dyeing at Yoshida Hataten Co., Ltd.
2014 Began activities as Yotsume Senpusya
2015 Relocated to Kunisaki City, Oita Prefecture and established a new workshop