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Yame Tea Series 2
“Eighty-eight nights” is 88 days after the first day of spring. Since the first day of spring this year, 2022, was February 4, “88 nights” became today, May 2. From this day onward, they say that full-scale summer will begin, and in Japan this Eight-eight nights day is the time....
Japanese Traditional Woodwork 2
Series 2 Shin Kinoshita
Shin Kinoshita runs his shop “Woven Story'' in Saga city as one of the promoters of Nabeshima Dantsu. He is one of the few successors of Nabeshima Dantsu and he has mastered the technique at the workshop where he could inherit the orthodox tradition of Dantsu......
Series 1 Characteristics
The basic size of Nabeshima Dantsu (hereafter Nabeshima rug) is 191cm x 95cm. It will take more than one month to create this rug due to all the handmade woven. There are more than 60 different kinds of traditional patterns from the beauties of nature with 100 different dyed colors which are selected from the many Japanese traditional colors.....
Prologue
In Japan there is a high-class rug so called “Dantsu（緞通）” which was well appreciated by General (Shogun) Tokugawa in Edo period.....
