For our daily life maybe it is time to give up on using our traditional & expensive hard-table-wares, and also using lots of money, time and the precious water resources on cleaning dishes is so out of date.
So let’s have a look at one of the choices of table-wares for our daily life from Japanese Wasara , and also it is better for our earth.
from Wasara website;
“Selecting a tableware that best suits each ingredient or cuisine is a common practice for the Japanese. Among all the scenes of the world’s food cultures, no other nation cares as much about its choice of tableware. The richness of its food culture, received as one of the most refined in the world, has been clearly affecting its tableware culture.
Enjoying meals with vision as well as taste, sensing seasons with ingredients and plates, we present WASARA as tableware to add beauty to a casual gathering of congenial people that creates a rich and warm atmosphere.”
from Wasara website;
“Fitting comfortably in the hands, having a sense of stability, and accentuating food and drinks, WASARA’s form and texture make it clearly distinct from other disposable ware. The organic forms that can be accepted comfortably and the texture that gives a handcrafted feel are functional beauty rooted in the Japanese custom of holding dishes as we eat. WASARA’s rich individualities are articulated in their subtle forms.”
some interesting lines from Wasara website
” Japanese creative tradition
WASARA is a product of idiosyncratic Japanese sensibility, but how was this sensibility developed? We can find a clue in traditional architecture and manufacturing. For example, Japanese culture has the technique of shakkei, which interprets the landscape seen through a window as a part of the interior. It represents our spirit of living in harmony with nature. A lattice and a shoji screen create a certain type of beauty with a repetition of simple patterns. The resulting crisp atmosphere, a source of refreshment and comfort, has been integrated into people’s lives. The simpler the form, the more accuracy is required in crafting techniques.
WASARA is paper tableware inheriting such spirit, artifice and aesthetics in our manufacturing philosophy. ”
The best part comes last (;
“Eco-friendly
As a fate of paper tableware, a WASARA can serve its purpose only once. Yet, it is designed to minimize the environmental burden, a global issue of our time. Therefore, WASARA employed reed pulp, bamboo and bagasse (sugarcane waste) for its material. Reeds and bamboos have strong life force, and are in no danger of extinction. And produced after extracting juice from sugarcane, bagasse is sometimes discarded, but its intrinsic nature is perfect as a paper material.
Hence, by replacing wood pulp with non-wood materials such as baggasse and reeds, resources can be used efficiently. WASARA is tableware that blends with the natural practice of reducing waste. It is eco-friendly tableware complimented by spiritual richness.”
“Earth to Earth
As paper tableware, the WASARA series is ephemeral. The materials, reeds and bagasse, will return to soil in the end. Since ancient times, human beings have lived side by side with nature, conversing with and learning from it. Everything – human beings, animals, trees and weeds – returns to the earth from which new life springs.
After serving at people’s gatherings, WASARA also returns to the earth. WASARA, a one-time-only paper ware, plays a role in enriching one’s mind, despite its ephemeral nature. ”
via wasara
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