Monday December 31, 1990
"Buy hare plates at Tokiwa."
I coveted these plates for months. They are quite unlike anything else I own. To me they look more Chinese than Japanese. I think it is the complexity of the design and the shade of green. But I wasn't sure about the yellow. I don't really like the color yellow. That is, I didn't used to. But after months and months of cold, gray, dreary days, I craved the it. Give me Van Gogh yellow and lots of it.
The set of 5 plates was 5000 yen (about US$35.00 at the 1990 exchange rate). What a bargain. Every Christmas, we eat fruitcake or other desserts off them. I'm the only one allowed to wash them, of course. It's not that I don't trust ajm or jqs. It's that if they are broken, I want to have only myself to blame.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
January 19, 2003
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Rabbit plates.