So while we were in Tajimi to visit our friend’s tile accessories workshop, we also checked out the sights in town. We were most impressed by the Tajimi Mosaic Tile museum which you should definitely visit if you are in the area. The visit starts on the top fourth floor with a opened roof room …
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This past week we went on a trip to 多治見市 (Tajimi city) in Gifu prefecture for a visit of the workshop that makes our tile earrings line. Tajimi is the bedrock of the tile industry in Japan and has a thousand years old history of ceramic production, known as 美濃焼 (minoyaki). As a side note, there …
As a new series on this blog, I will introduce Japanese sweets we love and want to share with the world. My first installment is Kuzumochi (葛餅). Made from starch powder, it is usually eaten with kinako (sweet roasted soybean flour) and kuromitsu (black cane sugar syrup). This particular one is from Funabashiya (船橋屋), a …
A couple weekends ago, while strolling around Ginza, we ended up at the Itoya flagstore – always a good spot to find cool products and ideas. They had a very nice exhibition of hundreds of various Japanese papers on pin badges spread across a huge table. It was beautiful. 和紙 (washi), Japanese traditional paper, is produced by …
Our goal with Chuchulu is to bring objects that we like from Japan to a wider worldwide audience. As part of that objective, I wanted to also show you some of our favorite lesser known spots through a series of blog posts. As the first installment, I will start with our personal favorite picnic spot: …
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