Chabudai

admin on 06 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Chabudai and Zataku

Chabudai and Zataku is the low table which can fold a foot. In Japan, we used it as a general dining table until Showa era. And characteristic of these are that moving and storing is easy.

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Futon

admin on 07 5, 2010 | Comments Off

Japanese traditional pillow

The Japanese traditional pillow is made with a real husk of the soba. These contents are natural material. Therefore, it is very weak at the humidity. It is necessary to dry this when moisture piled

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Noren

admin on 06 24, 2010 | Comments Off

The kind of the noren

* Shop noren * In Japan, noren is used as "signboard" of the shop. It is shown as "face of the shop". Called Honzome traditional from ancient times Japanese as for the dyeing a method is used m

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Shoji

admin on 07 13, 2010 | Comments Off

History of Shoji

Shoji is one of the housing parts to use for a door and a window in a Japanese house. It was the thing thing which partitioned off a room originally. It shuts out the view. In the last years of

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Tatami

admin on 06 7, 2010 | Comments Off

History of Tatami

* Tatami is Japanese original culture * The tatami is the peculiar thing which wisdom of the life of the Japanese race produced. The Japanese climate is humid, and break in the weather is intens

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Zabuton

admin on 06 29, 2010 | Comments Off

The kind of zabuton

Zabuton has some kinds. In the first place, as for Zabuton, tatami evolved. Ancient tatami served both as bed and cushions. And this was the thing which expressed social position and authority

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Zaisu

admin on 07 20, 2010 | Comments Off

About Zaisu

That the Japanese takes off shoes and sits down is made a custom. It is more comfortable and can make it the cool room by installing Zaisu in a Japanese-style room. There is "a floor seat" on t

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