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Chirimen crepe origami sheets from Japan, folded into a crane and a kabuto helmet

What Is Chirimen? Japan's Crepe-Textured Silk, ...

What chirimen is, how its pebbled shibo texture is made, where it comes from, the difference between hitokoshi and onishibo, and how the fabric is used in Japanese craft.

What Is Chirimen? Japan's Crepe-Textured Silk, ...

What chirimen is, how its pebbled shibo texture is made, where it comes from, the difference between hitokoshi and onishibo, and how the fabric is used in Japanese craft.

Banner with the headline How Many Boxes for a Full Set on a cream background. To the right are five slots in a row. Four of them hold small painted figures and the fifth is empty, outlined with a dashed line. Two of the four figures are identical.

How Many Boxes to Complete a Japanese Blind Box...

How many boxes does a full set take? Two numbers on the product page settle part of it before luck does, and one of the two is often missing.

How Many Boxes to Complete a Japanese Blind Box...

How many boxes does a full set take? Two numbers on the product page settle part of it before luck does, and one of the two is often missing.

Banner with the headline Why the Candy Changes the Rules on a cream background. Two white cards of the same size: the one labelled The Collectible shows a small painted figure of an armoured character, and the one labelled The Food shows a wafer biscuit.

Shipping Japanese Candy Toys Overseas: Why the ...

A candy toy carries real food, and that half is the one buyers overlook. Why we cannot ship to the United States right now, and how candy removal works.

Shipping Japanese Candy Toys Overseas: Why the ...

A candy toy carries real food, and that half is the one buyers overlook. Why we cannot ship to the United States right now, and how candy removal works.

Banner with the headline Single, Box, or Carton on a cream background. Three white cards labelled Single, Box and Carton show a sealed single candy toy pack, the outer box of a Kamen Rider figure series, and a plain kraft box drawn as an illustration.

Japanese Blind Boxes: Single, Box, or Carton, a...

Single, box, or carton? Every maker page we checked publishes how many types a series has, not how many pieces are in a box, and none promises a full set.

Japanese Blind Boxes: Single, Box, or Carton, a...

Single, box, or carton? Every maker page we checked publishes how many types a series has, not how many pieces are in a box, and none promises a full set.

A rainbow daruma doll with both eyes left unpainted, standing on weathered wood among autumn maple leaves

Daruma Doll Colors: What They Mean, and What th...

Gold for money, white for exams? We checked the temple where daruma began, plus city and prefecture sources, to find what daruma colors actually mean.

Daruma Doll Colors: What They Mean, and What th...

Gold for money, white for exams? We checked the temple where daruma began, plus city and prefecture sources, to find what daruma colors actually mean.

A handmade Takayama bentwood kensui, the waste-water bowl of the Japanese tea ceremony

What Is a Kensui? The Tea Ceremony's Waste-Wate...

What a kensui is, what it does in the tea ceremony, its materials and styles, how it differs from a koboshi, and how to care for a bamboo one. A...

What Is a Kensui? The Tea Ceremony's Waste-Wate...

What a kensui is, what it does in the tea ceremony, its materials and styles, how it differs from a koboshi, and how to care for a bamboo one. A...