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Traditional Harvesting Rice Experience -Arigato Project presented by Kokuryu Sake Brewing Corporation and its supporters-

2017.03.05

Sake

As a part of the activities of “Arigato Project”, (Arigato means thank you) the baby rice was planted in May of 2016 and it had become 1 meter tall four months after that.

 

The scenery of the rice field with the beautiful tall golden rice plants shows us that

it is the end of Japan’s hot summer and the beginning of the Japan’s autumn.

On August 28th, 2016, staff of Kokuryu brewery, authorized dealers of Kokuryu, “

Yushi-no-kai” and participants of “Arigato Project 2016” harvested the rice plants.

 

On that day, a large-scale typhoon was coming to Japan so the weather was unstable

and it was mizzling at the beginning. Kokuryu staff and authorized dealers were

running around to take care of the weather situation to be able to harvest the rice plants.

With their efforts and also it stopped raining, so they were able to harvest the rice plants.
Although the weather was not perfect for farming, it was perfect for the participants to harvest the rice plants in the cool and nice weather.

 

Stay tuned for more updates!

 

 

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Craft art "Kintsugi" for reparing broken pottery has been handed down in Echizen Lacquereware Village, Sabae City

2017.03.02

Arts and crafts

Even though I knew about the "Kintsugi", which was a method for reparing broken pottery, when I visited a lacquerware studio in Kawada Distict, Sabae City, I was surprised to hear that this technique was still alive and they had requests to repair pottery.

 

They were sometimes asked to repair plates not only expensive but also ones customers made themselves at a pottery workshop.

 

Right after I knew that, when I dropped in a design office “TSUGI”, I found a
familiar “Sentenmon Compote Dish” by a ceramic artist Yoshihiro Kimura on a table,
who I have just shot his exhibition at Fukui Craft Center the other day.
Furthermore, the dish was repaired by the "Kintsugi".

 

I was glad to know that it has been used with care.

 

TSUGI | Creating products and design unit based in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture

 

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