Bunkyo Gakuin University Kawagoe Laboratory's Traditional Craft Revitalization Project Featured in High School "Public" Textbook with 100,000 Copies Published Nationwide

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Bunkyo Gakuin University's Kawagoe Laboratory's project to revitalize traditional crafts has been featured as educational material in Jikkyo Shuppan's high school "Public" textbook, "2026 Zoom Up Public Materials Revised Edition," which has a circulation of 100,000 copies. The project addresses the shortage of artisans for "Edo Komon," a nationally important intangible cultural property, by having students extract design theories from historical patterns and develop intuitive tools for artisans. The integration of advanced technology and tradition in prototype development was highly praised.