For Gods Saké

Lovely sake jars by J-Period and a great excuse for a sneaky eastern tipple.

 Megawa sake jar made from cedarwood and urethane resin from Akita prefecture.

Porcelain Sabikomasuji sake jar from Arita prefecture

Megawa sake jar in cedar from Akita prefecture. 

Heavy Petting

Great packaging by Japanese Eding:Post. What is it? It's to keep your pet's trash separate from the humans in the house. They've got some other great stuff on their site but seem to be a bit obsessed with teddies and bunnies

Fine Time

Cool clocks by Japanese designer Shimizu Junichi for IDEA International The green LED clock has a 9 minute snooze button, long enough to have another mini-kip when you wake up but short enough so that you're not late for work.

Steel mesh casing makes a great cover for LED numbers.

Tick tock I want this clock

When time is of the essence turn to the Dashboard watch by Cabane de Zucca. It's a 2001 purchase from Tokyo and its neon orange will definitely not make you feel tangoed but timely. Thanks Hamid for the grey Parisian backdrop in Shot 1!

Get wired

Delicate sculptures of musicians made from iron by Japanese designer Koichiro Tokumochi under the brand Saurs. His works have become collectors items in Japan and can be customised into other sports activities for example.

spffffoooons

In the Fawlty Towers episode "the Hotel Inspectors" Basil launches into a verbal attacks on anally retentive guest Mr. Hutchinson when he realising he's been lickarsing someone who works in spoons and isn't a hotel inspector. He sibilantly says, "So you work in spoons, sppoooffffoooons, do you."
Basil's wrong, spoons are great especially when they're made by Quico

Posh spice

This children's bamboo dinner set is only for Posh kids who can stomach entrées, fish, meat and soup courses! From Funfam

Yamagiwa lighting - Salone 2009

Kisa Kawakami's light for Yamagiwa is inspired by Origami and called Kisawings.

LED lighting doesn't have to be ugly. Moonbird by Yukio Hashimoto for Yamagiwa

Leave the light on for me..

Great pendant lights from Japanese Pacific furniture service. I love the unintentional Labour & Wait edge mixed with the feel of a retro water jug.

Library Chair

Love these 2009 Library chairs by Japanese Misawa Naoya. Available in four colours and made for beech they are perfect for swotting up on.

Getting fruity..

Fruit juice packaging designed by Naoto Fukasawa. The outside imitates the fruit skin, it has to be said the kiwi juice carton looks realistically hairy. Via Toxel

Saucy strawberry

Kiwi juice could do with a wax

Banana au lait (no joke)

Bag lady

These new bags are made from tear-proof, water-resistant Naoron - a type of paper developed by super-designer Naoto Fukasawa with a traditional Japanese washi company Onao. The range is called Siwa

What's the time Mr. Wolf.....?

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According to my LED watch by Hiranao Tsuboi from 100 per it's a very fluorescent-orange 22:54!

Music box

Japanese design collective One Tenth have designed this minimalist cd player that hangs on the wall. Put on some tunes and get boogeying!

Wooden it be Lovely?

Technology with a low-tech facade. These keyboards are hand-made by Japanese company Hacoa

It's also a DIY keyboard kit

Do put all your eggs in one basket

Japanese company Tamanohada's soap are all completely natural and don't have that all too common astringently artificial pong. The packaging is to die for.

In case you hadn't realised they're not eggs they're soaps!

Love the very graphic signage on each individual soap

An individual soap

Professor Calculus

Japanese designer and London resident Ippei Matsumoto designed this 10-key calculator for Japanese IDEA International by Sam Hecht's Industrial Facility. It's at sell-out at London's Design Museum but only use it for the odd-sum it's very noisy and bound to grind your colleagues gears if you continuously do sums on it!

Tweet tweet

This family of birds are handmade by a carpenter collective called Cosine in Asahikawa in Hokkaido, northern Japan. They nest by snuggling up through April in this sweet little box (below.)