The Back Room

Yoriko Yamamoto, originally from Tokyo, moved to San Francisco for graduate studies in Art Education. While working at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as an art educator, she also acted as a liaison and translator for exhibitions at institutions such as the de Young Museum, Asian Art Museum, and the Nordic Watercolor Museum. Currently, she works as a Waldorf Handwork teacher and has been practicing plant dyeing for over a decade. Yoriko takes delight in teaching Temari, a traditional Japanese craft she perceives as a form of prayer, meditation, and well-wishing.

Yoriko translated Kaori Miyashita Takatsuji’s “Ozu in San Francisco” for The Back Room.