Growing up in San Francisco, I often visited Japantown. It’s probably there when I first fell in love with traditional Japanese home and garden elements, especially the antiques and the systems around them. I’ve been admiring them ever since. Everything fits together beautifully.
As with many things, there is a quiet, deliberate poetry to how traditional Japanese homes organized and protected their culinary tools.
Within a traditional mizuya-dansu (kitchen tansu), every dish, bowl, and ceramic vessel has a designated spot dictated by weight, material delicacy, and airflow.
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