Joyful Long Life Crane-----Chiyo-gami/Ori-gami earrings

Description

[COLOR]
Red, Gold

[SIZE]
Crane: approximately 1.5 inch=3.6cm wide

[MATERIAL]
* Beautiful Chiyo-gami(千代紙) paper, selectively hand-picked from my favorite Chiyo-gami store in Japan.
* Hourai Suzu(bell)
* Silver plated earrings
* Crystal clear resin

[DESIGN]
The beautiful Chiyo-gami crane coated with crystal clear resin swings, definitely eye catching(^o^) They are daily life water proof, but please do not soak them in the liquid.

[ABOUT TSURU(CRANE)]
In Japan, Cranes are symbol of long life as it is shown in an idiom "Tsuru ha sen-nen, Kame ha man-nen"(Cranes lives thousand years, Turtles live ten thousand years).
We believe that they can reach to heaven because their callings travels far away like they can reach to heaven.(^o^)
They are also symbol of happy married couple.

[ABOUT HOURAI SUZU(BELL)]
Tiny Japanese bells called Hourai-suzu make cute sound. "Hourai" means "coming treasure", and "Suzu" means "bell". It is believed in Japan that the treasure will come to you when you wear Hourai-suzu(^o^)

[ABOUT CHIYO-GAMI]
Most people know about "Ori(fold)gami(paper)-折り紙". There are so many different types of origami paper today, but originally, the word "Ori-gami" derived from "Chiyo(a very long period, like thousand years)-gami(paper). Chiyo-gami paper are traditionally created by hand with the highest quality Japanese paper, and also hand dyed by woodblock print, one color by one color, one paper by one paper just like Kimono fabric. It takes several days to produce one paper. It takes five years to become a Chiyo-gami master.

Therefore, historically, Chiyo-gami was consumed in imperial palace, and also used for calligraphy by upper class Japanese. Ordinary citizens could not own it.
However, the Edo period came, Chiyo-gami spread from Kyoto to Edo(Tokyo)and began to be sold at the store which sells "Nishiki e(picture)". Nishiki picture is gorgeous and colorful woodcut print which is particular to Japanese. Those "Ukiyoe" artist had very good printing techniques, so Chiyo-gami became much cheaper since then.

Nishiki picture was to mainly portrait of Kabuki actor/historical person, so they were just like poster of Tom cruise or something like that:)Girls worked at Edo castle fold Chiyo-gami paper that relates to their favorite Kabuki actors to make something.
This is how Chiyo-gami became very popular.

Added on Nov 03, 2007

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