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Linda Stephen, Owner and Designer
Linda Stephen has more than 12 years experience in communications in Japan and New York advising multi-national corporations and United Nations agencies. She is fluent in Japanese and previously lived and worked in rural Japan for six years.
She has more than 10 years of experience teaching students ages 5 to 65 in the community and at organizations that include Matsushita-Panasonic, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Ryukoku University and Omi Brotherhood Schools.
Stephen now offers instruction in origami, Japanese language and culture to students of all ages. She first started making origami in 1984, when she folded 3,000 peace cranes to send to children in Moscow.
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Masaya Honda, Paper Engineer
Masaya Honda, is a native of Azuchi, Japan, an ancient castle town 30 miles north of Kyoto on Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake.
Before moving to the U.S. in 1999, Honda served as a Shorinji Kempo martial art instructor for six years. Also, he learned Eastern and Western philosophy at a Buddhist University in Kyoto.
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History
Linda Stephen and Masaya Honda founded Sol Cards, Inc. in Mamaroneck, New York in 2003 to provide original cards, invitations, art and gifts that bring the blessing of sunshine to joyful, ordinary and sad times.
Linda, a native of Michigan, and Masaya, a native of Michigan's sister state in Japan, met near Japan's largest lake in the rural prefecture of Shiga, just north of Kyoto, Japan’s culture capital.
For more than 20 years, Linda has been creating her own cards and stationery -- using media such as burnt firewood on birch bark, blackberry juice sketches with sticks and embroidering on paper. In Japan, she fell in love with Japanese handmade papers (washi, yuzen, (chiyogami) -- the quintessence of Japanese design that have brightened the household interiors of common and royal Japanese houses for the last 1,000 years.
In a world of 24 X 7 work demands, virtual relationships and increasing cultural uniformity, a Sol Cards' handcrafted card or origami collage celebrates the uniqueness of each individual.
We look forward to our coming correspondence with you.
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