This is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth called “furoshiki.” Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for wrapping gifts, but you can also…

I have written about Japanese cotton towels called “tenugui” several times on Japan Style website. So maybe you know that tenugui are usually long and rectangular, like this.     Today,…

  This is the pendant with a horseshoe shaped Nanbu Iron (painted lacquer). Although it’s small and simple, the texture of iron and the shape of horseshoe match each other…

  This is the pendant with a horseshoe shaped Nanbu Iron (painted lacquer). Although it’s small and simple, the texture of iron and the shape of horseshoe match each other…

  Everywhere Japanese young women go, there are faces of her –a Japanese fashion model, Tsubasa Masuwaka. She is only 150cm tall, which is very small for a fashion model,…

TC Candler, a movie news and reviews website, has announced its annual list of the world’s Most Beautiful Faces 2010, and a Japanese female model, Nozomi Sasaki (Age 22) ranked…

According to the “2011 Hit Products Prediction Ranking” by NIKKEI TRENDY (December’s issue), mobile beauty instruments will be hit in Japan next year. A wide variety of stylish and compact…

These are slices of pickled cucumbers. Hmm. It looks yummy, doesn’t it?   And this is rice bran paste. Maybe it doesn’t look so yummy…   The cucumber mentioned above…

  This is a Japanese NETSUKE (owl) using Nanbu Iron. (1P) This type of quiet design can be used for long time. [About Nanbu Iron…]Recently, Nanbu Iron has increasingly gained…

  This is a Japanese traditional wrapping cloth called “furoshiki” style bag. It is newspaper design. Furoshiki have been used in Japan through the ages. They are used mainly for…

  Green tea is rich in vitamin C, especially sencha (green tea grown in full sun) contains 2.6 times more vitamin C than a lemon does, so it brightens skin…