Masters Of Cultural Arts

Keiko's parents sent me a University Entrance present in the post over the weekend. It came in two parts - a box and a long poster-like tube.


It is two furoshiki's, silk cloths used as either wall decorations or to wrap presents/lunchboxes etc. They're beautiful and I'm glad to leave Japan with some not-tacky memorabilia. At the moment, they're hanging back to back, but I'll probably do something different after I leave.


The last picture is just to show the size to scale:

And finally a few techniques of how to use them to wrap: