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<\/a><\/p>\nOften it is difficult to buy Japanese items here in the US, but these are available online –> Shinzi-Katoh mugs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n While we are on the topic, I lived for three years in Japan while studying at a university there. It was a very fun three years and I was able to see some very interesting, and by western standards unconventional, designs. In particular, there is one Japanese designer that I (and the rest of the SOS team) have really come to… Continue reading Designs we admire – Shinzi Katoh (Cool Designs From Japan)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos-boca.com\/workroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI also happened upon a good book about Japanese design. It’s called Japanese Style<\/em><\/a> by design enthusiast Sarah Lonsdale. <\/p>\n<\/a> <-- click picture for more book info\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"