友禅作家であり人間国宝であった故・森口華弘氏の次男として京都に生まれ、京都市立美術大学（現・京都市立芸術大学）日本画科を卒業後、パリ国立高等装飾美術学校に留学し、グラフィックデザインを学び卒業。帰国後、華弘氏の弟子となり友禅を学び、2007年（平成19年）に父と同じく人間国宝となりました。友禅作家として、伝統的な友禅の技法を用いながら既成の概念を超えた斬新なデザインを世界に向けて生み出しつづけてきた氏の大胆な幾何学文様は、伝統と革新の先で実る自由そのものに見えてきます。「このショッピングバッグが、多くの人たちに愛され、新しい世界を切り開く旗じるしとなってほしい」と語る森口邦彦氏の美意識が、きもの「実り」から誕生したショッピングバッグへ如実に表れています。

Kunihiko Moriguchi was born in Kyoto as the second son of the now-deceased Kako Moriguchi, a yuzen dyeing artist and Living National Treasure of Japan. After graduating from the Japanese-style painting department at the present Kyoto City University of Arts, he studied graphic design in Paris at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Returning to Japan after graduating, he became his father’s apprentice to learn yuzen dyeing and was later designated a Living National Treasure of Japan in 2007 (Heisei 19), just as his father had been. As a yuzen dyeing artist, while employing traditional yuzen techniques, he has continued to create and send to the world innovative designs that push the boundaries of accepted notions. With these bold geometric patterns, “ripening” freedom itself can be seen in the culmination of tradition and innovation. “I hope that this shopping bag will be loved by many people and become an emblem of opening up a new world,” said Kunihiko Moriguchi, whose aesthetic sense is vividly expressed in the shopping bag born from the ‘Minori’ kimono.