Monday, April 11th: Kyoto shopping
We sent off yet another package, this one around $120 to mail, then Erci and I went to the Kodai Yuzen-en and Gallery. We learned more about traditional Kimono arts both hand painted (ta gake) and stenciled. We even got to try our hand at stenciling a table cloth (Erci) and a T-Shirt (me, for my mom). We shopped our way back along the arcades just West of Kawaramachi-dori towards the hotel. We found (with Jeff and Dan's help) Aritsugu (www.aritsugu.com), specializing in hand crafted knives and tools. I bought a bill-hook and a pruning hook from Noboru-san and Erci bough a grater and a garnish cutter in the shape of a ginko leaf.
