In Japan, people on X are talking about a strange coincidence: this is the second time that, in the year when TV personality Bobby Ologun was arrested, a sudden torrential downpour hit just before the Takarazuka Kinen, and the quinella was decided by horses ridden by Yutaka Take and Yuichi Kitamura😅
#Frühstück
#Honig Die letzte Dose #Urushi #Lackbaumblüten aufgemacht.
So frisch und blümig kenne ich sonst nur von #Holunderblüten -Sirup. Herrlich sommerlich.
#漆の花 #蜂蜜
Hgst. bei @matsuzawa.bsky.social #Japan
Lackbaum
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackbaum
Urushi (Lack)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushi
Trees give us the oxygen we need to breathe. Anything to replace forests is good.
Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026
We decorated a pair of professional hairdressing shears inspired by a famous Japanese sword.
All of the decoration was done with urushi, including the delicate patterns and the hamon, the blade’s temper-line.
Takuo Matsuzawa
And Japanese tapping kills the tree to take the last of it.
A borrowed phrase. But in urushi the metaphor stops being a metaphor.
Takuo Matsuzawa
bfitzinAR
There's a Japanese saying: a single drop of urushi is a single drop of blood.
It borrows its shape from an older line — "a drop of oil is a drop of blood" — used by Clemenceau in WWI, pleading for fuel.
But it fits urushi far better than it ever fit oil.
shōchi @Fischkopp
A kintsugi repair on a chipped rim of an antique Royal Copenhagen demitasse cup.
#kintsugi
Takuo Matsuzawa
Takuo Matsuzawa
With oil, "blood" is just a figure of speech. Shorthand for something precious.
With urushi it's literal. Cut the tree and it bleeds — weeping sap to close the wound, exactly as we do. That drop really is the tree's blood.
