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Aug 22, 2015 • #Bag #bowl #Bushi-do #Bushido #business #ceramic #craft #craftsmanship #culture #cup #Etiquette #gift #Gift giving #Hand made #Japan #Japanese #Leather #manners #mug #ochugen #oseibo #present #Shinto #summer gift #textile #tsumaranai mono #winter gift

Learn the true meaning of gift giving, Japanese-style

If you have a Japanese friend or work with Japanese business people, you may know that they like to give gifts. Your Japanese customer may bring a box of biscuits when they visit your office or your Japanese colleagues may buy a souvenir for you when they have a long weekend away. While the...

Jun 15, 2015 • #Accessory #Bag #collection #couture sellier #craft #craftsmanship #Fashion #Hand made #hand stitch #Hiroshi Inai #Japan #Japanese #Leather #linen #qan:savi #wabizest

Two hours vs Five minutes

The leather craftsman Hiroshi Inai (read his story) takes two hours to hand stitch leather that would take only five minutes using a sewing machine. One of the benefits of hand stitching is its strength. Hand stitching gives strength to leather goods. Machine stitching has a front thread and a back thread. The...

Jun 06, 2015 • #Bag #bowl #ceramic #collection #color #craft #craftsmanship #cup #gift #Japan #Japanese #mgu #potter #pottery #wabizest #white

White

We tend to have imaginary or symbolic meanings for colors. White can imply holiness, innocence, purity and many other values. Are these ideas intrinsic, or are they based on cultural values? There were no words for color in old Japanese. People expressed not specific colors but grades of brightness or darkness. Only four...

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