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Gilding the Lily.
Ikenobo gold kompeito. An ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) company with a 550 year history...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012
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I thought this was a nursery or florist, but it was actually her house in midtown Kyoto. www.japandemic.com
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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
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www.japandemic.com A modest home in central Kyoto, with plants and leafy things,...
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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
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Here she is conversing with a gentleman caller who stopped round on his bicycle. www.japandemic.com
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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
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Here he is laughing at the fool gaijin taking pictures of her front yard with its...
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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
stars. remembering Kobe 1/17, 17 years later.
prayers and wishes going out to those of you who have told me your stories about the earthquake and...
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Uploaded on Jan 16, 2012
#OccupyJapan
These curios and quasi-European figurines helped launch the juggernaut and new Japan that we have...
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Uploaded on Jan 13, 2012
Back When Japan was China.
USA companies farming out knick-knack labor for dime-store tchothckes. The required underside...
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Uploaded on Jan 13, 2012
Quasi-traditional osechi nouveau...
This delicious spread is what the grandparents of my student bang out each New Year's day...
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Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012
Congratulations! to all the kids Coming of Age today...
(the party is now officially over...and sayonara otoshi dama New Year's money from parents and...
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Uploaded on Jan 9, 2012
I-I-I-I-I'm not your stepping stone!
Ahhmmm, actually, yes you are. Traditional hand-carved millstones for milling buckwheat (そば soba)...
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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2012
Buckwheat milling stones.
(...for milling buckwheat, not made of it. Just to be clear.) www.japandemic.com
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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2012
kaki (persimmon) hanging to dry in front a Kyoto house.
thought this was nursery/florists at first glance. so many living plants making a buffer between...
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Uploaded on Dec 21, 2011
kaki (persimmon) hanging to dry.
this crystallizes the sugars in the bitter kaki...making them scrumptious, if you can handle the...
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Uploaded on Dec 21, 2011
under tree...getting set for the Holidays.
