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Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!

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Happy New Year!!

These are Osechi-ryori which are traditional Japanese New Year foods.

Osechi are easily recognizable by their special boxes called jubako, which resemble bento boxes. The dishes that make up osechi each have a special meaning celebrating the New Year.

osechi (wikipedia)

K-SHOCK stitched by Makoto Ozu

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Cross stitch artist, Makoto Ozu invented hand made watch named as K-SHOCK.
K-SHOCK made with knitting wool. “K” is as same prpnounciation as wool in Japanese.

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Ozu is amazing artist for unique cross stich pattern. He stitches on note book and partation bord.

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Hop Stitch Jump
my stitch book

mellow cafe : cats (neko) cafe

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Mellow Cafe is not a ordinary “neko cafe” but a “spend some good time with cats (neko)” cafe.

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mellow cafe

The shop staff are really cute! But when I went there, all of them were sleeping (the cafe bans touching them while they’re sleeping) or in the cage… hmm! not a good timing… T_T

mellow cafe – cafe master (japanese)
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Oden Sankichi (Oden restaurant at Sendai city)

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Oden Sankichi is very famous Oden restaurant at Sendai city. Many of media workers at Sendai often gather here.

Oden (おでん) is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon radish, konnyaku, and processed fish cakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth. Ingredients vary according to region and between each household. Karashi (Japanese mustard) is often used as a condiment. (From Wikipedia)

Oden Sankichi
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Hotel Claska

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Hotel Claska is known well as designer’s hotel in Tokyo. The concept of Claska is to stay as living. You can enjoy Japanese modern living style to stay there.

CLASKA

CLASKA

There are art space and souvenir shop in it.

CLASKA
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The book of koginzashi (by Fugeiten)

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Our leader and bag designer, Yoko Tsukamatsu published new book of koginzashi. Koginzashi is a traditional and exquisite embroidery works from Northern part of Japan.

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This book was written by Yoko and culinary artist Ricca Fukuda. They team up the unit named “Fugeiten“.

Fugeiten re-appreciated Mingei movement(the Japanese folk art movement in the late 1920s and 1930s in Japan). And now they re-produce koginzashi with modern attitude.

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They suggest how to stitch koginzashi on bags, jeans and scarfs on this book. Now available on Amazon.co.jp

Amazon.co.jp: koginzashi no hon

Trip to Hokkaido 5 (Hilton niseko village & sushi restaurant)

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We stayed at Hilton niseko village. It’s very good hotel with hot spa.

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Our room was Deluxe Room.

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At dinner we had sushi made of the Hokkaido fish and fishry product(uni, ikura and tobiko).

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A chef showed us a fresh squid.

Hilton Niseko Village
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Trip to Hokkaido 3 (Mt.Yotei)

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This is Mt.Yotei . The top was covered by cloud.

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hokkaido

hokkaido

We went to Niseko Milk-kobo. I ate very tasty milk icecream. And there were some hoses here.

Niseko Milk-kobo

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