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Culture
2023.01.28
Mataro Dolls, which inherits the techniques of “Mokumekomi dolls” and carries on the polished traditional techniques of “Mokumekomi dolls” to the present day, is now selling its new “Foil-pressed” dolls with a pure, bright and fresh image like a pure white flower at the Mataro Dolls Hall and on the Internet.
The new “Ho-Oshi” series of Mataro dolls features the technique of “Ho-Oshi”, in which designs are drawn on the surface of costumes made with Mokume-Komi, using gofun (glue) dissolved in glue, and then gold leaf is glued on the surface.
The impulse stand is decorated with sandblasted flower patterns. The doll is holding a goyo azalea, whose floral language is “elegance. Costumes, personal belongings, and even the impulse stand are created with a unified view of the world.
| Contents: | Female Hina Dolls, Male Hina Dolls, Screen, Shinnodai x 2, Flowers x 2 (selectable with or without), Sakufuda, etc. (A care set will be provided as a service.) |
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| Size: | Frontage 30cm x Height 18cm x Depth 16cm |
| Price: | With flowers 165,000 yen (tax included) Without flowers: 156,200 yen (incl. tax) |
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Yoshitaka Amano’s original work “ZAN” animation movie scheduled to be released worldwide after 2026
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Tokyo
Restaurant
Food
Hotel Metropolitan will hold the “Nagasaki Fair” from January 15, 2024 (Monday) at three of its restaurants: the all-day dining restaurant Crossadyne, the Japanese restaurant Hanamusashi, and the Shikisai Saryo Shunka.
Tokyo
Restaurant
Food
Ramen Izakaya Deniro is offering a collaboration with street-style ramen restaurant “No Good Neighbor” starting Thursday, December 7, 2023.
Aomori
Event
Hoshino Resort Aomoriya, in cooperation with local railroad company Aoimori Railway Co., will operate a sightseeing train service on Saturdays and Sundays only from January 20 to February 11, 2024, offering meals and local sake while enjoying Aomori’s snowy landscape.
Tokyo
Travel
Hoshinoya Tokyo, a Japanese-style inn located in Otemachi, Tokyo, will again this year host the “New Year Kabuki Stay” program, a two-day and one-night stay from January 5 to 26, 2024.
For people living in Edo, one of their New Year’s pleasures was to watch Kabuki, and it was a chic way to spend the New Year. Theatrical teahouses supported this way of enjoying Kabuki. In addition to arranging tickets to the theater, the teahouses delighted patrons by providing a complete range of services, including plot notes, tea, sweets, makunouchi box lunches, and snacks and drinks (*1). Hoshinoya Tokyo offers a stay to celebrate the New Year with hospitality similar to the theatrical teahouses of the time.
*1: Tomizawa, Yoshihide and Fujita, Yosuke (2012). The Latest Kabuki Dictionary. Kashiwa Shobo.
Tokyo
Travel
Event
From November 22 (Wed) to December 3 (Sun), 2023, an autumn foliage lighting event will be held at Shinjuku Gyoen. Following the cherry blossom event this spring, Shinjuku Gyoen and Naked will collaborate again this fall for the autumn foliage event. Shinjuku Gyoen, one of Tokyo’s most famous gardens, is one of the few places in the city where visitors can enjoy the autumn leaves. The 200-meter-long rows of plane trees, the best maple tree spot in the city, Momijiyama, and the “Middle Pond,” with its spectacular reflection in the pond, will offer a world where the autumn leaves of Shinjuku Gyoen and Naked’s art and food are fused together.
Kyoto
Event
Daitokuji Obai-in Temple “Kinshu Dinner” will be held on November 25 (Sat.) and 26 (Sun.), 2023, a two-day private event at Obai-in, the pagoda temple of Daitokuji Temple, known for its beautiful autumn foliage.
