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Doors into Japan's living crafts — where the maker stays unknown, and the beauty lives in use.

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Aizome (Japan Blue)藍染

Japan Blue — awa-ai, natural fermentation indigo from Tokushima. Green from the vat, blue in the air; true fermentation indigo is now about 1% of what…

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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.

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