Kyoto Seika University

In short

Kyoto Seika University is a private university in Iwakura, northern Kyoto, that began in 1968 as a junior college with an art course and became a four-year university in 1979. In its Faculty of Arts, the ceramics major teaches hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazes and firing, including a climbing kiln at an off-campus site, and the textiles major teaches dyeing and weaving techniques such as screen printing, wax-resist and stencil dyeing, tapestry weaving and felt, with chances to learn Yūzen and Nishijin methods. In the Faculty of Design, the product design department has majors in industrial design, interior and goods design (with first-year classes in lacquer, metal forging and bamboo) and fashion design.