Mr. Yoshiko became the president of "Japan Kogei Association"

Yoshiko, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Akishino, was appointed as the president of the Japan Kogei Association.

The Japan Kogei Association is an organization in which writers and engineers of traditional crafts such as ceramics and dyeing and weaving join, and in addition to holding exhibitions such as the "Japanese Traditional Crafts Exhibition" in various places, it is also working on training successors. I'm out.

Mako Komuro, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Akishino, has been the president since 2016, but she got married last October and left the imperial family to retire.

In March of this year, there was a request from the Japan Kogei Association, and Yoshiko was appointed as the new president on the 14th, and in the future, she will select the winning works of the "Japanese Traditional Crafts Exhibition" and attend the award ceremony. Will be.

According to the Imperial Household Agency, Ms. Yoshiko is very interested in Japanese crafts, such as attending Mako, who was the president of the company, and receiving explanations from the Japan Kogei Association.