During the Edo Period, the site of today’s Ivy Square used to be the office for the local magistrate, representing the Shogunate which governed Japan. Later on, this became the site for Japan’s first cotton mill owned by Ōhara Magosaburō, an influential and beloved Kurashiki native who owned several business concerns and would later donate several…
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Old and New In Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
The antique structure in the Ohara House compound actually has a motion-sensor faucet installed in the bamboo surroundings. “So he told them, “Every student of the Scriptures who becomes a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like someone who brings out new and old treasures from the storeroom.”” Matthew 13:52 CEV
Wabi-Sabi: Beauty in Imperfection
Love this beauty concept: Wabi-sabi (侘寂) -Japanese lifestyle of “finding beauty in the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay; Beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete; includes asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.” … How very…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 