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#tradition

6 articles tagged #tradition.

• lifestyle

  Kotatsu — the Japanese low table with a heater under it that quietly redesigned the entire winter

  A low table, a heater, a heavy blanket. The Japanese winter device that keeps the family warm — and gathered — in one square meter.

• culture

  Shōgatsu — the Japanese New Year, when the entire country quietly resets in three days

  The Japanese New Year isn't a party — it's three days of national stillness, family, and a specific lacquered box of food. Here's what happens.

• culture

  Hanami — the Japanese national ritual of sitting under temporarily-blooming trees, on purpose, with friends

  Japan plans its early-April calendar around a flower that blooms for one week. The whole country gathers under it on purpose.

• craft

  Tatami — the Japanese floor where an entire household actually lives

  The Japanese floor where the whole household actually lives — built to last fifty years of being lived on.

• craft

  Ryokan — the Japanese inn where the staff quietly take care of you for one night

  Not a hotel. A one-night Japanese-style residence where the staff quietly take care of you. Here's what a ryokan actually is.

• craft

  Onsen — the Japanese hot spring that the country has treated as half-sacred for over a thousand years

  Over 27,000 natural hot springs in Japan, often outdoors with snow on the railings, treated as half-sacred. Here's why one winter soak changes everything.