{"id":463,"date":"2007-01-31T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2007-01-31T06:17:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T20:17:15","slug":"tokyo-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo &#8211; Textures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it was the origami crane placed for good luck in my hotel room, but very quickly I gained the sense that this is a country that loves texture. Japan has a long association with paper and paper arts so it seemed fitting that I would seek out some handmade paper when I arrived. There was also a beautifully wrapped sheet of instructions on how to make a crane &#8211; along with a small square of patterned washi paper.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image458\" alt=\"Japan - paper\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/jpn-origami.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And sure enough in my fairly random arrival at Ginza district I was amazed at the variety and quality of the paper. Naturally I had to bring some back. There were rolls of the stuff, so I found a couple of really nice neutral paper that held out the possibilities of its texture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image459\" alt=\"Japan - paper\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/jpn-paper1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos don&#8217;t really do it justice<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image460\" alt=\"Japan - paper\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/jpn-paper2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japan is also known for its fine silk kimonos and I was delighted to find a couple of ceremonial kimonos displayed in the hotel<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image461\" alt=\"Japan - kimono\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/jpn-kimono1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The detail work was fantastic &#8211; if difficult to photograph!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image462\" alt=\"Japan - kimono\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/jpn-kimono2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You could tell how much into texture are the Japanese women &#8211; in the high end of town the simple classic black coats gave way to camel hair and cashmere coats and capes.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo is also a quirky place &#8211; but more on that tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it was the origami crane placed for good luck in my hotel room, but very quickly I gained the sense that this is a country that loves texture. Japan has a long association with paper and paper arts so it seemed fitting that I would seek out some handmade paper when I arrived. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}