"Furoshiki" as eco-bag
"Furoshiki" is reusable and multipurpose. Each year billions of plastic bags end up as litter; reusable bags, such as Furoshiki can help reduce the impact to our environment. Its versatility allows you to wrap almost anything regardless of its shape or size.
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What is "furoshiki"?
"Furoshiki" is a good manner at the gift scene of Japanese. There is common sense and wisdom through their own long history.
Japanese seek for delicacy and styling beauty in act with furoshiki, wrapping, tieing, holding, untieing and spreading. And they
always care for furoshiki's texture and patterns at use.
Japanese trust their mind and warm-heart more than to speak, by covering in fine cloth and showing, variation of how to tie.
furoshiki makes a performance of new your life-style and life-stage.
History of "furoshiki"
The custom of using fabric for wrapping in Japan began as early as the Nara period (710 ? 794 AD) and the name "Furoshiki", which combines the words "furo" meaning "bath" and a form of the verb "shiki" meaning "to spread". It was used to wrap clothes at the Shosoin (a structure at the Todai temple in Nara, Japan).
In the Heian period (794-1185 AD), Furoshiki was known as hira-tsutsumi(flat object wrap).
In the Muromachi period (1338-1573), Shogun Ashikaga built a great bathhouse. It was a kind of steam bath with straw mats, wood, or cloth on the floor. The invited lords used silk cloth that had been printed with their family crests to hold their clothes. These were used in order to keep each lord’s clothes separate and as a mat, after they finished bathing.
But it is not till the Edo period (1603-1868) that public bathhouses(sento) became widely popular, Furoshiki was
often used for spreading on the floor while undressing and for wrapping bathing articles and clothes to carry.
Patrons of the sento would carry their change of clothes and bathing articles wrapped in the Furoshiki, and then spread it out onto the floor to change their clothes on. During this period, Furoshiki became wildly popular,
where it was considered a functional and essential item among the working class.
Merchants and peddlers would carry their wares to the street in the Furoshiki, then lay them out on the Furoshikito sell.
In other words, the Furoshiki started out as the cloth in which people carried their clothes and toiletries, but later it came to be used to carry (or wrap) just about anything. Many people think Furoshiki is unique to Japanese culture, however it has in fact been used in many countries as an instrument to carry baggage and children.