Japanese (& Vietnamese) wares

Date: 2006.02.04 | Category: design | Tags:

I posted some of my collection of Vietnamese plasticware to Craftapalooza’s cookie cutter show off group. Strictly speaking not cookie cutters, more like cookie stamps. I imagine they’d be used to decorate the Vietnamese version of moon cakes, but don’t really know. Anyone?
Yes, I love, love, love Marrickville too.

Anyhow, got me thinking that I actually have 2 moulds for Japanese sweets, bought in the Nishiki market in Kyoto, from Aritsugu. Also a hairclip bought from Takashimaya and 2 koi hairpins from a craftshop … Yuemiya? We went to Tokyo, Kyoto and Berlin for our honeymoon. The first big trip overseas for both of us (now we wanna go back ;D).

I’d love to be able to make hairclips like that … maybe one day. Funny, I bought 2 books (1, 2) on making Japanese sweets ’cause they were so yummy, knowing I’d never learn Japanese but thinking that maybe sometime with lots of patience and a dictionary I might be able to figure out the pictures. Well, guess who’s learning Japanese 101 next semester as a detour in her IT networking degree? That’s right, me!!

P.S. I didn’t realise I’d be able to find a website for Aritsugu – I was just trying to spellcheck!