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Ueno station with a huge celebratory decoration
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Engrish; please do it again :)
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Police station
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Old machines
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Yaita scrape yard
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Scrap yard in a small Japanese village
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Really old bamboo basket, it's just gone lobsided
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A warm welcome with an amazing volumous bamboo basket of minimalist design
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Amazingly beautiful bamboo basket welcoming guests when entering the original Japanese farm
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Tea cups for the quests
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A place of honour for this bamboo basket, in front of a modern painting
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One of my favorite bamboo basket designs; simple and elegant
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A few of the smaller baskets and favorites of Masumitsu-san
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Beautiful arrangement of iron cast vases, some mimic bamboo
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Cosy modern Japanese living room
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In house traditional cooking hearth, irori, and tea utensils
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View on the kitchen from the living room
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Living room with a wood stove
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From the traditional Japanese living room to the adjecent 'garden room'
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Bamboo baskets in boxes and unpacked waiting to be admired
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'Storage' of the antique bamboo baskets at the old Japanese farm
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The 'storage' room in the old Japanese farm for all these amazing bamboo baskets
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So many baskets, they don't fit in the 'storage' room
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Storage of boxes and boxes full of Japanese bamboo baskets
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Light streaming through the window of the Japanese farm house
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Basket conversation
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Detail with intricate knots
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Detail of a modern bamboo basket
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Inside out modern bamboo basket
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The thousand lines technique
