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Old 05-06-2010, 12:19 PM   #99 (permalink)
Jetée
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Translated:
Passing through the manipulation of light and color paper, peer into the design of bamboo and even bone structure, proud to show off the graphics in a circular format. Hat (no pattern of everyday tool) I dare to be enough "umbrella" as the townspeople of Edo culture to luxury, umbrella design blossomed. Edo, Kyoto, Osaka, and spread to regions in Gifu, umbrellas to protect the tradition of Kanazawa, which houses the only umbrella shop Matsuda.

Umbrellas were once produced in the separation process consisting of about 20 species. But as the spread of umbrellas, and artisans out of business after another. Mr. Hiroshi Matsuda craftsman, divide the thin bamboo, only processing cut the bone to be necessary tool only, but relying Honeya Gifu, after the assembled structure stretched and cut paper, oil Spread to finish, the whole process to acquire the technology, we are making.

"I had left to sell stock to the umbrella" of handmade Japanese paper, the unsold stock from how war.
Texture can also color, the new umbrella will give the case can not match."

World's most beautiful umbrella. : Hall 日乗 Shinonome



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