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Two samurai on the silk
An old warrior's guide to telling someone the truth so they can hear it
Jul 23
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The stone that says no
In a Kyoto tea garden, where the stepping stones divide, someone has placed a small stone bound with dark cord. It is the size of a fist. You could step…
Jul 14
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From ceremony to daily life: the afterlives of ritual objects
On the dignity of an object that has stopped performing its first work
Jul 9
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Lighter than a feather, and not silk
The history of Japan's summer linen, and a small lesson on what to wear in the heat
Jul 2
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June 2026
The knot at her back
On the obi, the back-tied knot, and constraint becoming grace
Jun 22
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Zuiun 瑞雲: The Auspicious Cloud, and Why It Was Woven in Gold
A cloud is the least permanent thing in the sky.
Jun 13
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A Year in Plates
Reading the seasonal calendar inside an 1893 kimono pattern book, and what it teaches us about reading an obi today
Jun 4
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May 2026
The First Amsterdam Silk Room
A 1678 Dutch portrait, the Japonse rok, and the four-hundred-year conversation with Japanese silk that this atelier continues today.
May 26
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The Honoured Crack
On Cohen, Kintsugi, and Silk What a 1992 lyric, a sixteenth-century Japanese tea master, and a fold-line in sixty-year-old silk all know
May 19
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Ma — 間: The Practice of Being With....alone
On loneliness, ceremonial silk, and the small ceremony of attention
May 13
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What a 1962 Obi Knows About Mothers
On Mother’s Day, ceremonial silk, and the four sentences that hold a life
May 9
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Einfühlung — 移入
The Older Meaning of Empathy, and What a Silk Asks of Us On Vischer, Rilke, Rodin, and the imaginative act that ceremonial silk has always demanded
May 2
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