Hosoi Ichiba is the designer and munufacturor of traditional Japanese themed buildings, building components, antiques and lifestyle products. Hosoi Ichiba offers a complete range of Japanese style products to create, build and design Japanese Edo period scenery, country side or town.
This blog describes the products, updates and activities going on in and around the Ichiba Cluster so that friends and customers can stay up to date.
A “life” showcase of our complete product line can be experienced in Kitely. Hosoi Ichiba products can be obtained on Second Life Marketplace and in Kitely Marketplace. See links below.
We are proud to announce our webstie myorientalgarden.com is up and running. This website will be our online source for real life Japanese garden oriented products like Japanese bridges, Japanese patios, prefabricated Japanese buildings and Japanese decorations for the Japanese Garden.
Based on more than a decade of field research, this colorful report on the high-touch craft of shellfish diving, takes us to the coast of the Shima Peninsula in central Japan. Here most of the divers (ama) are women and many of them are older with an average age of 50...
