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Beautiful, sustainable and functional objects, made by japanese craftsmen to embellish your daily life.All our products are made by our Japanese craftsmen with natural and durable materials.Presentation of our craftsmen Pottery craftsman - Hekizan ONIMARU
Master Hekizan ONIMARU's workshop is located in southern Japan. Takatori pottery appeared in 1630 at the instigation of the famous Edo architect and tea ceremony master, Kobori Enshū. Takatori pottery is characterized by thin ceramics, which give it its elegance, and influenced by the idea of beauty as expressed by Enshû according to the principle of kirei-sabi, which designates simplicity, beauty and the natural aging brought about by the work of time.
Hekizan ONIMARU is the third generation of Takatori potters. His Fragrant Cup is typical of the Takatori style, its enveloping shapes highlighting the fragrance of tea, coffee and digestifs. AchiKochi blog - Crafts and Nature
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Tanabata - A Summer Festival in Japan
Summer is a time for festivals in Japan. People go out for Matsuri (festivals), markets, fireworks, and other celebrations.
Tanabata is a festival that takes place on July 7th. It arrived in Japan from China during the Nara period (710-794).
On the eve of Tanabata, at the end of summer, the stars Altair (the Cowherd) and Vega (the Weaver) are very high in the night sky. A very old legend tells a love story with many variations.
A young cowherd named Hikoboshi met seven fairy sisters bathing in a lake. The youngest of them, the weaving fairy Orihime, caught Hikoboshi's eye, and she fell in love with him. They married and lived happy moments with their children. But the Goddess of the Heavens discovered that a mortal cowherd had married one of the young fairies and became furious. She came down to Earth to find Orihime and bring her back to the celestial kingdom. Hikoboshi followed them to the sky, but just as he managed to reach Orihime, the goddess created an impassable river in the sky to separate the two lovers forever, each in their own world, thus creating the Milky Way separating the stars Altair and Vega.
Orihime had to remain eternally on her side of the river, crying every day, sadly working on her loom, and Hikoboshi watched her from afar, taking care of their two children.
The Goddess of the Heavens took pity and then allowed the two lovers to see each other on the seventh night of the seventh month each year. This is the night of Tanabata.
Today, Tanabata is celebrated in various ways across Japan, but one of the most iconic traditions is the writing of wishes.
Tanzaku: People write their wishes, sometimes in the form of poems, on small colorful strips of paper called tanzaku. These tanzaku are then hung on bamboo branches, often decorated with other colorful ornaments. It's believed that these wishes float up to the sky and are granted.
Bamboo Decorations: Streets and homes are adorned with large bamboo branches decorated with tanzaku and various other paper ornaments, symbolizing different prayers (for example, purses for prosperity, paper cranes for longevity).
Festivals (Matsuri): Many cities organize Tanabata festivals, featuring parades, food stalls, games, and performances. The Sendai Tanabata Festival is one of the most famous for its immense, vibrant decorations.
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AchiKochi (pronounced "atchi kotchi" and meaning "here and there"), is a "select shop" that imports products made by its Japanese craftsmen spread throughout Japan. These beautiful products are all handmade, of exceptional quality, functional, and made in the respect of traditions often more than a hundred years.
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