In praise of shadow 2

Old-fashioned houses in the middle of Kyoto is long and narrow. So only a slight sunlight comes inside a house and it is dim inside even during the day.

One of traditional Japanese wares is a urushi ware, coated with urushiol lacuquer. The texture is quite smooth and glossy.

It looks too showy under the sunlight or the fluorescent light, but tasteful and sometimes elegant under the warm lighting of the candle light or incandescent lamp.

The mood of the texture is totally up to the light. This kind of warm light is indispensable to Japanese mysterious beauties.
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