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What is Furoshiki?

What is Furoshiki?

Do you have any chance that you think about furoshiki as you spend usual lives unintentionally? It is a Japanese traditional culture, which is not particularly novelty, but there are so many stories in this simple flat square cloth. For simple things, interpretation can be wider, and in fact it is deeper.

What is Chashitsu? The smallest extraordinary space

What is Chashitsu?

Chashitsu (tea room or tea house) is, as the name implies, a tatami room where you drink tea. However, that’s not all. Chashitsu is a magical space where people connect with each other, and humans and nature come into contact with each other.

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How to Use Furoshiki
How to Use Furoshiki
The ways to use furoshiki to introduce here are carefully selected for the ones that can be done easily, fashionable and convenient. Hope you enjoy.
Furoshiki Design
Furoshiki Design
The most representative design offuroshiki should be “karakusa (arabesque) pattern”. It is a pattern that has been popular in Japan for a long time, but it is said that its origin is in ancient Greece. It was eventually used in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and it is thought that it was transmitted to Japan around the Nara period (AD 710 to 794) through the Silk Road. The pattern that multiple vines of the arabesque (medicago) intertwined and woven together expresses the vital force of the vines, which has meanings such as descendant prosperity. It may also be used for body parts of shishimai that appear in festivals throughout Japan.
Furoshiki & Environmental Impact
Furoshiki & Environmental Impact
Recently furoshiki has been drawing attention as eco goods. Here is the explanation how the favorable impacts can be made by using furoshiki. The plastic shopping bags we use at shopping in retail stores like supermarkets are made of materials such as polyolefin, and there is concern about the negative impact on the environment. Ethylene, which is a raw material for polyolefin, is made by refining petroleum. Annually, 60 million to 100 million barrels of oil is spent on plastic bag manufacturing in the world. Therefore, you can save oil that is the raw material by not using plastic bags.
Furoshiki History
Furoshiki History
Furoshiki has a very long history. By definition, it can be said that it is more than 10,000 years if it is broadly understood as “cloth of the world”. If it is narrowly defined as “Japanese furoshiki”, it dates back over 1200 years ago.
What is the chashitsu of Souan?
What is the chashitsu of Souan?
It is no exaggeration to say that the “chashitsu of Souan” is a complete form of Japanese architecture and Japanese aesthetics. They were sophisticated ones, tiny yet making you feel great expanse, simple yet delicate, and mind-soothing yet getting tension to the spirit. Souanification may be rephrased as Japanification.
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Society is advancing more and more, but as mass production and mass consumption have become commonplace, we came to wonder, “Isn’t this really the affluence?” Then the number of people, who are aiming for minimalism at the other end of the spectrum, is increasing.

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Novel writer, Creator. Graduated from UCA, the UK’s university. Discussed Japanese minimalism in the senior thesis. Founder of “MINIЯISM” (minirism), the art movement that contributes to the development of societies, such as ecology and lifestyle. Covered various fields as a writer in different parts of Europe, and later launched the knowledge hub “The Minimalist.”

Once travelled to Brazil and trained football at CFZ do Rio (Centro de Futebol Zico Sociedade Esportiva) in Rio de Janeiro. Played soccer for the Urawa Reds (Urawa Red Diamonds), one of the biggest football clubs in Japan, and toured Europe. Retired at a young age and voyaged alone to England. Established careers as journalist, football coach, consultant, etc. across Europe such as Spain. Knowledgeable in creative and technology fields as well. The founder of “Propulsive Football” (PROBALL), the world’s first-ever competitive mixed football, facilitating diversity and spirit for equal participation in society.
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