Plus No-Face reveals off his two sides on the dinner desk.
Conventional Japanese desk settings have a tendency to make use of loads of little items. You may need a plate in your primary dish, a bowl in your rice, one other bowl in your soup, and different small dishes or cups for salads or facet dishes. And if you wish to be particularly elegant, you’ll even have chopstick rests, in an effort to set the utensils down with out their ideas (the components that go in your mouth) coming into contact with the desk.
And if you wish to be each elegant and cute, you will get your self some Studio Ghibli chopstick rests.
Studio Ghibli specialty retailer Donguri Kyowakoku has simply restocked two collection of charming and inventive chopstick rests, the primary that includes the magical forest wildlife of My Neighbor Totoro. These items are crafted by Shiga Prefecture’s Meizan Ceramics, which was based in the course of the Edo interval and has been making artworks for roughly 400 years.
As a substitute of his customary grey, the Large Totoro right here has an earthenware-brown hue. He’s accompanied by the blue Medium Totoro and white Small Totoro, in addition to a Soot Sprite perched atop the ear of corn, with “For Mother” written on it, that Mei needs to ship to her mom within the final act of the beloved anime movie.
Additionally accessible are 1 / 4 of Spirited Away chopstick rests, with, naturally, No-Face a part of the group.
These porcelain items, which aren’t made by Meizan, have a glossier end than their Totoro counterparts. No-Face’s quirkily intelligent lounging pose is mirrored by Otori-sama, one of many fowl creatures that visits Spirited Away’s Aburaya bathhouse.
Mouse-form Boh doesn’t appear to have fairly the identical flexibility, although.
And final, No-Face comes again once more, with a a lot much less calm-and-collected demeanor.
▼ Would this make you roughly prone to gorge your self?
The Totoro chopstick rests are being provided as a bundle for two,970 yen (US$21) right here on Donguri Kyowakoku’s on-line retailer, whereas the Spirited Away piece can be found individually for 1,100 yen every (right here, right here, right here, and right here).
Supply: Donguri Kyowakoku
Prime picture: Donguri Kyowakoku
Insert photographs: Donguri Kyowakoku (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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