{"id":14046,"date":"2011-12-26T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitka.ca\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2011-12-26T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T16:19:43","slug":"sori-yanagi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/?p=14046","title":{"rendered":"Sori Yanagi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard some very unfortunate news&#8230; Sori Yanagi passed away on Christmas Day, at the age of 96.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/yanagi_portrait_t346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14047 aligncenter\" title=\"yanagi_portrait_t346\" src=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/yanagi_portrait_t346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/yanagi_portrait_t346.jpg 346w, https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/yanagi_portrait_t346-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we were in Japan over the summer we were lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Sori Yanagi&#8217;s work at the Ginza department store. Of course Yanagi will be remembered by his famous butterfly and elephant stool, along with his stainless steel kettle and mixing bowls. But going to this exhibition we caught a glimpse of the scale of Yanagi&#8217;s work: from ice cream scoops, to tape dispensers and scales, children&#8217;s toys, bathroom sinks, and even cars. The fascinating thing about the kitchenware we saw is that they are all unmarked ubiquitous items that are still used in many Japanese kitchens without knowing who designed it, but more importantly that it works well.<\/p>\n<p>A very small example of Sori Yanagi&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tongs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14050 aligncenter\" title=\"Sori Yanagi tongs\" src=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tongs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tongs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tongs-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14051 aligncenter\" title=\"Sori Yanagi4\" src=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi4.jpg 565w, https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi4-159x200.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14052 aligncenter\" title=\"Sori Yanagi tape\" src=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tape.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tape.jpg 465w, https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-tape-200x186.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-scale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14053 aligncenter\" title=\"Sori Yanagi scale\" src=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-scale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-scale.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kitka.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sori-Yanagi-scale-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard some very unfortunate news&#8230; Sori Yanagi passed away on Christmas Day, at the age of 96. While we were in Japan over the summer we were lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Sori Yanagi&#8217;s work at the Ginza department store. Of course Yanagi will be remembered by his famous butterfly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,9,1618,1385,1386],"class_list":["post-14046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-kitchen","tag-kitka","tag-mjolk","tag-sori-yanagi","tag-tongs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14046"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14060,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions\/14060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}