
Tag: Japan
memory archive – day 8

This is a fancy Japanese humidifier and a perfect object to explain my resistance of getting rid of no longer needed items. Continue reading “memory archive – day 8”
memory archive – day 7



This memory is yet about another living thing that we didn’t manage to keep alive for long. Continue reading “memory archive – day 7”
memory archive – day 6

memory archive – day 3

This is an Ema, a Japanese wooden wishing plaque. You usually buy those at Shinto shrines, write a wish on the back and hang it up at a dedicated space. This one we bought beginning of 2016 – the zodiac year of the monkey – at a shrine close to Ueno Park. We liked the design so much that we took the plaque home with us, wrote our wish on the back and hung it on one of the trees in our garden. Continue reading “memory archive – day 3”
memory archive – day 1

A pretty bad picture of some nasty items. These are fridge magnets; advertising for a Tokyo plumbing company. When we found the first one of this collection in our letterbox we thought it was hilarious; a prime example of the other typical Japanese design aesthetics: make it loud and make sure that even the smallest bit of information that might be of relevance is on there; a migraine-trigger. Continue reading “memory archive – day 1”