kyogibune boat

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kyoogibune, kyōgibune 経木舟 kyogibune
boat from paper-thin sheets of wood

The boat for serving food is made from matsu, sugi or hinoki pines.

They are easy to use and throw-away for food stalls at the roadside and are offered in large quantities.

- source : runshimo.blog.ocn.ne.jp

natto served in a kyogibune 船納豆

takoyaki

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kyoogi, kyōgi 経木 "lit. sutra tree"
paper-thin sheets of wood

This type of sheet for writing was widely used before the advent of cheap paper.
It was quite practical, since it could easily be "erased" by shaving over the wooden plate and start again.

Since most offerings to the deities in Buddhism were placed on these sheets, written with a sutra text (kyoo 経), the naming became popular.

Later it was also used to wrap food items. Also small ply boxes (oribako 折箱) are made to store bento for station lunch boxes.

Now kyogi is also used to make other items, like toys, ikebana flower arrangement accessories and others.

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Shumai Bento with a sheet of kyogi at the bottom
崎陽軒のシウマイ弁当 Yokohama

When the lunch box is opened, the faint smell of wood adds to create appetite.

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. Kashiwameshi - かしわめし - Orio 折尾駅 .
minced chicken meat on rice
鹿児島本線折尾駅

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. Anago Meshi 穴子飯- あなごめし - Miyajima　宮島 .
rice with conger eel
山陽本線宮島口駅

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. Train Station Lunch Box (ekiben 駅弁) .

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Kyogi is a wooden paper from Japan.
It is thinly shaved pine wood and has a smooth surface. It is semilucent with a wonderful wooden smell.
Traditionally Kyogi was used to wrap food, onigiri, fishes or sweets. It was also used to wrap obentos in. Kyogi found a revival in the ecological minded world and is even seen in restaurants recently.

Seen by European eyes it has a Scandinavian touch with its bright wooden tone and its mat surface.
Kyogi can be rolled, twisted, cut, teared, stenciled, painted on, tinted, glued and stapled into many shapes. It allows your creativity to flow free.

Designs with Kyogi
- source : www.greengabes.com/kyogi

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Things found on the way

kyoogibune, kyoogi no fune 経木舟
kyogibune, boats from paper-thin sheets of wood

(mostly wood from hinoki or sugi pines)
There are people on board, linked to the paper strips hanging down. When the wind moves these strips, the boatman starts rowing, the man dances with his umbrella.
This art has died out at the early Showa period.

. Folk Toys from Kanagawa .
Odawara town 小田原

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HAIKU and SENRYU

kyoogiboo, kyougibou 経木帽 kyogibo hat
hat made from a paper-thin sheet of wood
chip bonnet, wood-chip hat, chip-plait hat

. HAT .. kigo for all summer .

存在の大きさ経木帽の大きさ
sonzai no ookisa kyoogiboo no ookisa

the largeness of existence
the largeness of this chip-plait hat

Kakurai Akio 加倉井秋を (1909 - 1988)

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島の医者経木帽被て往診す
shima no isha kyoogiboo katsugite ooshin su

this doctor from the island
wears his chip-plait hat
to visit patient's homes . . .

Tsue Heki-U 津江碧雨

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秋もはや壁の飾りの経木帽
石塚友二

経木帽の奥の黒き瞳たたかえり
赤城さかえ

経木帽の軽さ画鋲をもて壁に
鈴木栄子

経木帽海気を含み柔かき
久米正雄

経木帽著けて立夏に加はれり
相生垣瓜人

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夏好きのわれに日の縞経木帽
宇宙遊泳夢より遠し経木帽
文豪に礼縁に脱ぐ経木帽
経木帽秋風立ちし紐結ぶ

百合山羽公 Yuriyama Uko (104 - 1991)

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Related words

***** . kyoogi natto 経木納豆 from Hakodate .
函館だるま - Hakodate Daruma 　経木納豆

with Daruma san !

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