Mame: “Kudzu-vine boxes. Gone between 1965 and 1974. A revival group forms in 2000. Still meeting twice a month. Right, I'm saving this one!”
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@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialMame: “Kudzu-vine boxes. Gone between 1965 and 1974. A revival group forms in 2000. Still meeting twice a month. Right, I'm saving this one!”
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@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialフク「箱そのものは、九州国立博物館にも、海を渡ってオランダの博物館にも、ちゃんと残っているというのにね」
@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialFuku: “The boxes themselves are still there — at the Kyushu National Museum, and even across the sea in a museum in the Netherlands.”
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"Japan Didn't Kill the Hanko — It Killed Almost Everything Else"
Actually, that part has almost entirely changed. Out of all the procedures at the national level, 99.24 percent of the s…
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"Why Can Nobody Make This Japanese Box Anymore?"
Fuku, look at this. A little box, woven out of kudzu vine. The strands are as thin as thread. I've never seen anything l…
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@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialフク「翌年からじゃないの。行き詰まったのも、研究を始めたのも、同じ1957年。彼はその年を、区切りにしなかったのよ。」
@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialFuku: “Not the year after. The collapse and the research both happened in 1957. He didn't let that year become an ending.”
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"Why Did Japan's Hanko Culture Take 4 Years to Form?"
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"From 4.5 Billion to 750 Million: Japan Formally Ends a Tradition"
Okay, so apparently Japan used to send over four point four billion New Year's cards a year. And now it's down to under …
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@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialフク「それがね、麺の研究を始めたのは1957年。しかも同じ年に、彼が理事を務めていた信用組合が経営に行き詰まって、全財産を失っているのよ。」
@unearthingnippon.bsky.socialFuku: “Well, he began the noodle research in 1957. And in that very same year, the credit union where he served as a director ran aground — and he lost everything he had.”
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