mattjabbar: This old shop (called Takei Sansyōdō) that originally a sold writing brushes and all kin
mattjabbar: This old shop (called Takei Sansyōdō) that originally a sold writing brushes and all kinds of other writing supplies has beed relocated to the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum and you can see it there still. It has been originally built in 1927.http://www.tatemonoen.jp/panorama/east_jp/e06/ I was interested in this shop for a while because the rumor says that Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for the boiler room in “Spirited Away” from the insides of this shop - it has a lot of hand-crafted small drawers that held once all the writing supplies - inks, brushes and others. I wanted to paint this shop few times already but during all my visits to the museum the top windows were shut with storm shutters so I did not know how they looked. Keep reading -- source link