Mystery Tsutsumu
Tsutsumu (“to wrap” 包む) is the traditional Japanese practice of packaging goods — from fish to eggs, to bottles of sake — efficiently and harmoniously, using natural materials like bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves. It is an art form in itself, and the subject of the wonderful book How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka (available in our BOOK section). We’re not sure what this long, woven sleeve originally contained. It seems too long for a bottle, and it’s way too clean to have held a fish! Your guess is as good as ours.
22” x 5”
Tsutsumu (“to wrap” 包む) is the traditional Japanese practice of packaging goods — from fish to eggs, to bottles of sake — efficiently and harmoniously, using natural materials like bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves. It is an art form in itself, and the subject of the wonderful book How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka (available in our BOOK section). We’re not sure what this long, woven sleeve originally contained. It seems too long for a bottle, and it’s way too clean to have held a fish! Your guess is as good as ours.
22” x 5”
Tsutsumu (“to wrap” 包む) is the traditional Japanese practice of packaging goods — from fish to eggs, to bottles of sake — efficiently and harmoniously, using natural materials like bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves. It is an art form in itself, and the subject of the wonderful book How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka (available in our BOOK section). We’re not sure what this long, woven sleeve originally contained. It seems too long for a bottle, and it’s way too clean to have held a fish! Your guess is as good as ours.
22” x 5”