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Doors into Japan's living crafts — where the maker stays unknown, and the beauty lives in use.
Hana-Matsuri (Oku-Mikawa)花祭（奥三河）
An all-night winter kagura in the mountains of Aichi — a boiling cauldron, red demons, and the yubayashi water-splashing rite of being ‘born clean’ again, kept…
Festival /en/event/chubu/okumikawa-hana-matsuri/
Mino Washi美濃和紙
Paper strong enough to be light — 1,300 years of hand-couched mulberry sheets from the clear water of Mino, Gifu.
Nagara river /en/craft/chubu/mino-washi/
Every word is a door to the next.
Onta's clay leads to the river, the river to a hot spring, the spring to the table. The relations are the route.