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Noren (暖簾) are traditional Japanese fabric dividers hung between rooms, on walls, in doorways, or in windows. They usually have one or more vertical slits cut from the bottom to nearly the top of the fabric, allowing for easier passage or viewing. Noren are rectangular and come in many different materials, sizes, colours, and patterns.
Noren (暖簾) are traditional Japanese fabric dividers hung between rooms, on walls, in doorways, or in windows. Noren or Norén is a Swedish surname that may refer to:
A chabudai (卓袱台 or 茶袱台 or 茶部台) is a short-legged table used in traditional Japanese homes. The original models ranged in height from 15 cm (5.9 in) to 30 cm (12 in). [1] People seated at a chabudai may sit on zabuton or tatami rather than on chairs. The four legs are generally collapsible so that the table may be moved and ...
Entrance to the sentō at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum. Sentō (銭湯) is a type of Japanese communal bathhouse where customers pay for entrance. Traditionally these bathhouses have been quite utilitarian, with a tall barrier separating the sexes within one large room, a minimum of lined-up faucets on both sides, and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in ...
In the 7th and 8th century AD, Tang-dynasty immigrants brought new production techniques for textiles, and Japanese silk weaving improved. [7] Silk was used for high-class fabrics, [ 9 ] with silk noil from broken, lumpy or discarded silk cocoons used to weave lower-class materials such as tsumugi , a type of soft, uneven slub-woven silk with ...
Norin 10 wheat (小麦農林10号) is a semi-dwarf wheat cultivar with very large ears that was bred by Gonjiro Inazuka at an experimental station in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Its parents were a semi-dwarf Japanese landrace that may have originated in Korea in the 3rd or 4th century AD, and two varieties from the USA. [1]
In Japan, an ochaya (お茶屋, literally "tea house") is an establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha. In the Edo period , chaya could refer to establishments serving tea and drinks ( mizujaya ( 水茶屋 ) ), offering rooms for rent by the hour ( machiaijaya ( 待合茶屋 ) ), or brothels ( irojaya ( 色茶屋 ) in Osaka ...
A miniature kichō at the Costume Museum in Kyoto. A kichō (几帳) is a portable multi-paneled silk partition supported by a T-pole. [1] It came into use in aristocratic households during and following the Heian period (794–1185) in Japan [2] when it became a standard piece of furniture. [3]