Crystal Garden Shirokane "Butterfly " -glass kaleidoscope-

Crystal Garden Shirokane "Butterfly " -glass kaleidoscope-Crystal Garden Shirokane is a studio where Mitsuru and Yuriko Yoda as well as talented younger artists are creating kaleidoscopes. This "Butterfly" is a stained glass kaleidoscope with a dry wand as an object. It has "Gemini" 4 mirror system which creates double mandala images. The poetic design attracts people and invites them to look through the eye hole. As the wand is filled with tiny glass pieces hand made by the artist, it is enjoyable to look

blue topaz

yellow with hints of white

One is a "road of the sea" and the other is a "road of the desert"

Mirror system: 3 mirror oil cell

decorating the central mandala pattern

Chitoshi Takabayashi is a wood kaleidoscope artist

creating a unique color pattern

Rotate the entire tube to enjoy the changes in the image

The 6-point image is visible at the center and spreads out through reflections

beautiful color palette

The entire cylinder is rotated to enjoy the changes in the image

It features a traditional Japanese peacock motif created using Ise Katagami stencil paper and Washi paper beneath the glass