The art and crafts of Kyoto, Japan. A Japanese artist polishes an object with charcoal and coats it with red lacquer. The artist gives the final touch. The final polishing with Tonoko Clay. Lacquer products displayed are red coffee pots, wine cups, cigarette sets, trays with gold dusted base and fan design and a stationary box.
Japanese artists at work in Kyoto, Japan. A Japanese farmer plows his land. A Japanese artist at work on a design for a color wood block print. The artist as he traces designs. He carves a design on the oilskin paper that has been pasted onto cherry wood. The carving is done with the aid of numerous types of chisels. A separate block is made for each of the various colors that are to be used in the final product. The artist carves the design.
A Japanese motion picture theater in Kyoto, Japan. A group of Japanese children play baseball outdoors. Other children stand as they watch the game. A man and two boys looking at Japanese movie posters. Japanese man accompanies the two boys to the cinema. The man buys tickets on ticket booth.
Japanese workers make fans in Kyoto, Japan. A worker shows a Japanese fan making method. The worker saws bamboo in short pieces and splits the bamboo into narrow stripes. He drills holes through each blade of the fan frame. The bamboo stripes. The worker bevels off edges and uses a wood chisel and a plane. He sands down and smoothen off each individual frame. The worker and the tools of his trade. The worker finishes the wood frame for a fan. He then places a shaft in the end of the fan and places finished fan frames on the ground to dry in the sun.
Wood frame houses around a large open fire break in Kyoto, Japan. Vaults (Kiura) which are all that remain after the removal of houses for the fire break during World War II. Vaults and mountains. Wood frame houses which were left intact. Mountains in the background.
Japanese women greet each other outside a house in Kyoto, Japan. Two Japanese women in kimonos walking down a street are met by another woman who is outside a house doorway. Japanese women greet one another by bowing low and backing. The older woman introduces the younger one to the third woman. The third woman bows and accepts the introduction. The three women enter the house.
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