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.
In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind "older sisters" bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. In Geisha, this observant ethnographer paints an intoxicating picture of the "flower and willow world" to which she gained entry...
