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		<title>Gift-Wrapping with Furoshiki</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yasuka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas, the season of gift-giving, is less than a month away.  Finding the perfect gifts for loved ones is one challenge . . . and then there&#8217;s wrapping them. Here&#8217;s a great chance to bring gift-wrapping techniques perfected by the creative Japanese. This Christmas, spruce up your gift presentation by following the Japanese style of  <a href="http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2011/12/gift-wrapping-with-furoshiki/">Read more &#8230;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Appreciating the Beauty of Bonsai</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yasuka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonsai 盆栽, means “plantings in tray,” from the Japanese terms bon, which refers to a tray or shallow pot, and sai, which refers to plantings. It is the art form of growing miniature trees in pots or trays. The origins of bonsai are in ancient China where it was originally known as “pun-sai” or “penjing.”  <a href="http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2011/08/appreciating-the-beauty-of-bonsai/">Read more &#8230;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethereal Joy of Katsushika Hokusai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KCP Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an extremely witty, lyrical accessible Japanese artist from Japan&#8217;s Edo period. Katsushika Hokusai / 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) was an artist of the uyiko-e / 浮世絵 school of painters.  Uyiko-e means, literally, &#8220;pictures of the floating world.&#8221; They are mostly woodblock prints and paintings. Hokusai was enamored of the artists&#8217; practice common at the time to  <a href="http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2010/04/the-ethereal-joy-of-katsushika-hokusai/">Read more &#8230;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>diving deeper into wabi-sabi</title>
		<link>http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2010/01/diving-deeper-into-wabi-sabi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KCP Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been reading a great book on wabi-sabi (the beauty of impermanence; the impermanence of beauty).  It&#8217;s called Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets &#38; Philosophers by Leonard Koren Click here for Leonard Koren&#8217;s website. The book is delightful.  I especially like &#8220;the wabi-sabi universe.&#8221;  It goes like this&#8211; Metaphysically, things are either dissembling into,  <a href="http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2010/01/diving-deeper-into-wabi-sabi/">Read more &#8230;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What is wabi sabi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KCP Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wabi sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. It is sometimes described as authentic beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.” Andrew Juniper claims, “If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object  <a href="http://www.kcpwindowonjapan.com/2009/11/what-is-wabi-sabi/">Read more &#8230;</a>]]></description>
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