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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 10346214, member: 76316&quot;]When I was a child, Uncle Leonard would send packages with unusual kid stuff from Nagoya. Might as well have been from the moon, as far as &#039;foreign&#039; to us. First thing we noticed was an aroma, which we thought came from the &#039;Balsa wood&#039; boxes which were in fact Kiri wood (Paulownia). Those amazing containers were my first exposure to the simplicity an&#039; precision of Japanese craft, an&#039; tho&#039; I couldn&#039;t have articulated that impression, I&#039;m still very well aware of its formative impact on my appreciation for all manner of Japanese art an&#039; artifacts. Their resonance with simplicity in most things, their attention to the smallest detail, an&#039; precision in execution make every item, utilitarian or decorative, a work of high art. I&#039;m still so attracted to the Kiri tomobako that I&#039;ve accumulated several dozen of them, of various sizes an&#039; ages. The kids will probably use em&#039; for kindling when I&#039;m gone...so be it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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