Still In Japan

Exibition

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Sitll in Japan became Stillin'Japan, as we came back home,
to Poland. Now we would like to share with anbyody who might be interested
with what we have stolen from there: our impressions, experiences and picures of
cource. Feel welcomed in February in Chlodna 25 club in Warsaw i Poland
PS: Sorry that we forgot to tell we left Japan, but we're comming back soon;)
http://www.urushi-pro.jp/stillinjapan
mail us: stillinjapan@urushi-pro.jp

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The biggest calleydoscope in the World. EXPO in Aichi

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up!

Villagers'

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July and August I spent on traveling here and there. Within that time I visited some villages in different parts of Japan, like Hida, Aizukougen, Hinoemata...etc.
Here you can see, mainly in the open air museums, how the village life looked like long time ago.
The traditional architecture, arts&crafts so different from the image of gorgeous shrines of Kyoto or Nara for example.
The life-style, the way it is presented, makes you think, how close to nature the life was in the past. Using natural sources, in accordance with the climate, in harmony with the surroundings, organized in the rhythm of changing seasons.
Cultivating the rice in Spring and Summer and making washi(Japanese paper)
or weaving and dying for instance in the Winter.
Making wooden&paper hauses aproprite for humid and hot Summer.
Using the abundance of wood for beautiful crafts, learning to use its best features.
Wasting nothing - drying the food, using the rice straw to warm up in the Winter.

Years made the learn how to use the nature's gifts in the best way.

Little to look for in the Nowaday picture of Japan, covered with glass and cement.

But there are still places where people live in an order resembling the traditional way.

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sudare - a bamboo blind to protect from the sun

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pumpkin and soya seeds for a snack

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wood and lacquer (URUSHI) crafts

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fruits made of fabrics

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Aizukougen - a moutain village in Fukushima-ken(prefecture). Actually It's a kind of a museum

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uchimizu - splitting water to make Japanese summer cooler - in a traditional way

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Hida - A village in the moutains, near Takayama in Gifu-ken

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a theater for the performance in the village during matsuri

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gasshou tsukuri - an enormous house, mentioned in the posts from Izu hanto, Shimoda

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the cosy livingroom

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the dryer at the attic

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the loom inside the house

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butsudan - the buddhist altar in a house

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the hut

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the dyer's -herbs used for dying fabrics

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sleeping and dreaming

Hanabi Taikai!

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is it alife?

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waaa!!!1

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a big hanabi taikai ( fire works event ) at the racecourse

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bim!