Makoto Kagoshima Exhibition @ biotope

All images are from biotope.

I went to an exhibition of a Japanese ceramic artist Makoto Kagoshima held at a lovely little shop called biotope in Gakugeidaigaku. I first saw his plates at aaA of yu (she has a great collection!) and later at ii-ne-kore. I instantly fell in love with his works and I did get to go to a little exhibition at the spiral but there weren't so many left there though I got a little plate for myself :)

At biotope today, I was literally surrounded by all his works from beautiful plates, bowls-big and small, coffee cups, vases, cute little objects and paintings! (you can see what it was like here) It was marvelous and I got really excited!!!! I liked many of them and didn't know which one I should get so I ended up not getting anything at all. The ones I really liked were too expensive for me anyway (30,000yen+). But I might go back soon as the exhibition will be going till Sunday, hmmmm.
You can buy them online here too, though am not sure they'd ship internationally.

Well, hope you will have a great weekend!!

biotope
5-14-1 Shimouma Setagaya-ku Tokyo 154-0002
Open: 14:00-19:00 Weekdays / 12:00-19:00 Sat&Sun&holidays / Closed on Wednesdays.
　

Japanese Folk Crafts in [nid].

[nid] is another wonderful lifestyle magazine that introduces "all good things of Nippon (japan)". And this current issue of [nid] features Japanese folk crafts and all the images of beautiful tablewares, kitchen tools, furniture, etc in it are just making my eyes sparkle!

Each Japanese prefecture (there are 47) has its special folk crafts and I've been enjoying to collect little bit of each when I visit different places in Japan. Kurashiki in Okayama prefecture is the next destination I'd love to visit for the beautiful Kurashiki glasswares!

In the [nid] website they have an online shop and you can buy some of the items that are seen in the magazine which is wonderful! These are some of my favourites:

"Onta-yaki" (小鹿田焼) from Oita prefecture, "Enkoji-gama" (延興寺窯) from Tottori prefecture.

Wooden potholders and coasters from Asahikawa, Hokkaido.

Japanese Stamps from the 70s and today.

My dad found some old stamps in my grandfather's old study. They are placed in two folders titled "Souvenir Stamps of Japan" and they are all from the 70s. As my grandfather travelled a lot with his job and had many correspondence with people in other countries, I think he had bought them to give someone as souvenir and forgot about them or something. When I was little he used to give me stamps from all over the world, many of which I could not understand what it said on them or where they came from but I was so fascinated by every one of them. And I still am a big fan of postal stamps.

A little collection of Sumo stamps.
Some cartoon stamps.
Stamps on nature.(sorry it's a little blurry)
And these are new ones, some of my favourites.
Hello Kitty Stamps are really cute ;)
(image from www.post.japanpost.jp)

Cheerful.

I'm enjoying to see all the pretty autumn photographs at everyone's blogs lately. Tokyo is still quite green and I have to wait a bit longer before it gets all yellow and red and beautiful.
This photo is from last year, sometime in December, it was so pretty that i had to stop to photograph. Isn't it cheerful?

And thank you for all the sweet comments to my previous post. Reading them made me smile and I do feel much better now :) Maybe it's the fatigue, I worked so hard the last couple of weeks, and perhaps it's just one of those days. But I do really appreciate your kind words. Hope your weekends are joyful!

Oh, by the way, have you seen at-swim-two-birds' lovely pillows (this, this and this!) at new mieke willems online shop? If not, please do!!

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Lights & Nights Twinkle.

I don't know but I kind of feel low, I'm going through a long dark night. But soon I'll see the lights, I know. Hope you are having a great week!

Gathered photographs I've taken in the past at different places.