Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
How to Wrap Five More Eggs

by Hideyuki Oka with photographs by Michikazu Sakai. Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo, 1975.

Traditional japanese packaging.

A digitalized version of the original here.

labrancaro: From How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka, photography by Michikazu Sakai “Exquisite incense in an exquisite package comes from the Kyukyodo in Tokyo.  The incense itself has been a treasured product since the Heian period of more than eight centuries ago.  The flat ceramic container (bottom) is first wrapped in a sheet of delicate handmade paper and then enfolded in five more sheets of handmade paper in graduated sizes and varying colors. This outer wrapper (top) suggests the costume of an aristocratic Heian lady: a number of flowing robes of graduated size worn one over another to create a rainbow effect.” Translated by R.F.
labrancaro: From How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka, photography by Michikazu Sakai “Rice straw is both a cheap and an abundant material, and it uses are legion. Here, in an example from Kanto region (the eastern part of Japan, centering in Tokyo), it serves for stringing red peppers together before they are hung from the eaves of a farmhouse to dry.” Translated by R.F.
labrancaro: From How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka, Photography by Michikazu Sakai * “The theme of this charming fantasy from Nagoya is tea. Tea-flavored candies called cha-ame are packed in a bamboo basket whose bamboo-sheath cover is tied on with a twine and adorned with artificial tea blossoms. Although the allusion is not specific, the basket suggests the gathering of tea leaves, and the cover, by a slight stretch of the imagination, may be seen as a copy of the hats worn by tea pickers.” (translated by “R.F.”)
labrancaro: From How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka, photography by Michikazu Sakai “From Ojiya, Niigata Prefecture, comes this package in the shape of an old-style Japanese snowshoe. It is an exact replica and an appropriate symbol, for Niigata is a region of long winters and heavy snows. Made of bamboo, straw rope, and paper dyed in a traditional textile pattern, it contains vegetables pickled in soybean paste.” Translated by R.F.
labrancaro: From How to Wrap Five Eggs by Hideyuki Oka, photography by Michikazu Sakai “Sake in bulk form is traditionally sold in wooden casks wrapped in reed matting and sturdily bound with reed or straw rope. The standard cask contains slightly more than 19 gallons, but the one used here is a smaller version designed to serve as a gift.  It comes from Nada, a part of Kobe and a brewing center long famous for the quality of its product.  The large symbol is a stylized form of the character for “rice”, and rice, of course, is the grain from which sake is made.” Translated by R.F.
From España Artística y Monumental / obra dirigida y ejecutada por Don Genaro Pérez de Villa-Amil [dibuixant] ; texto redactado por Don Patricio de la Escosura Pérez de Villaamil, Genaro, 1807-1854Ribet, José (impressor)Font, Emilio (impressor)Escosura, Patricio de la, 1807-1878Chez A. Hauser (Editorial)Imprimerie Lemercier et Cie
From España Artística y Monumental / obra dirigida y ejecutada por Don Genaro Pérez de Villa-Amil [dibuixant] ; texto redactado por Don Patricio de la Escosura Pérez de Villaamil, Genaro, 1807-1854Ribet, José (impressor)Font, Emilio (impressor)Escosura, Patricio de la, 1807-1878Chez A. Hauser (Editorial)Imprimerie Lemercier et Cie
From España Artística y Monumental / obra dirigida y ejecutada por Don Genaro Pérez de Villa-Amil [dibuixant] ; texto redactado por Don Patricio de la Escosura Pérez de Villaamil, Genaro, 1807-1854Ribet, José (impressor)Font, Emilio (impressor)Escosura, Patricio de la, 1807-1878Chez A. Hauser (Editorial)Imprimerie Lemercier et Cie
From España Artística y Monumental / obra dirigida y ejecutada por Don Genaro Pérez de Villa-Amil [dibuixant] ; texto redactado por Don Patricio de la Escosura Pérez de Villaamil, Genaro, 1807-1854Ribet, José (impressor)Font, Emilio (impressor)Escosura, Patricio de la, 1807-1878Chez A. Hauser (Editorial)Imprimerie Lemercier et Cie
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