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Where to go to see komomaki 菰巻き

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Alice

In my Oct. 16 column in The Japan Times, I wrote about komomaki, the straw mats you often see wrapped around the trunk of pine trees in formal Japanese gardens. As I explained in my article, this was originally a … Continue reading →

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