Peak season for making traditional "Boshu Uchiwa" fans

Traditional "Boshu Uchiwa" fans created by 85-year-old Masao Uyama (background) are displayed at his studio in Minamiboso, near Tokyo, on June 27, 2016, ahead of Japan's hot and humid summer. The Boshu Uchiwa is one of three major uchiwa fans in Japan, along with those created in the former capital of Kyoto and the western city of Marugame. The prices of Boshu Uchiwa fans range from 1,000 yen to 30,000 yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000089367

Registered date
2016/6/27 17:07:05

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2016 Kyodo News

Media size
2806 × 3497 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
1.13(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Sato-Nishiki cherries prepared for shipment for year's 1st auction

"High class" Sato-Nishiki cherries are prepared on Jan. 4, 2017, in the northeastern Japan city of Tendo for shipment for the first auction of the year in Tokyo and other cities. The cherries, popular as an unseasonable gift, fetched a high price of 200,000 yen per 500 grams the previous year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sato-Nishiki cherries prepared for shipment for year's 1st auction

Ruby Roman grapes fetch record 1.1 mil. yen in season's 1st auction

Takamaru Konishi, a buyer at a supermarket in Amagasaki, western Japan, holds a bunch of Ruby Roman table grapes at a wholesale market in the central Japanese city of Kanazawa on July 7, 2016. The supermarket, which became the winning bidder of the specialty of Ishikawa Prefecture with a record-high 1.1 million yen ($10,900) in the year's first auction, was also the winner of a pair of premium melons with a record-setting price of 3 million yen in Sapporo in May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ruby Roman grapes fetch record 1.1 mil. yen in season's 1st auction

Photo taken July 7, 2016, shows a bunch of Ruby Roman table grapes at a wholesale market in the central Japanese city of Kanazawa. The specialty of Ishikawa Prefecture fetched a record-high 1.1 million yen ($10,900) the same day in the year's first auction, up from 1 million yen marked the previous year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Peak season for making traditional "Boshu Uchiwa" fans

Traditional "Boshu Uchiwa" fans created by 85-year-old Masao Uyama (background) are displayed at his studio in Minamiboso, near Tokyo, on June 27, 2016, ahead of Japan's hot and humid summer. The Boshu Uchiwa is one of three major uchiwa fans in Japan, along with those created in the former capital of Kyoto and the western city of Marugame. The prices of Boshu Uchiwa fans range from 1,000 yen to 30,000 yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

High-grade cherries ready for year's 1st shipment

Workers prepare high-grade Sato Nishiki variety cherries for shipment in the northwestern Japan city of Tendo on Jan. 4, 2016. A 300-gram box of the greenhouse-cultivated cherries can cost tens of thousands of yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan having upbeat gift-giving season on stock gains

A sales clerk (R) serves a customer at a Takashimaya department store in Osaka on May 13, 2015, at the start of taking orders for "chugen" summer gifts in western Japan. Some gift packages cost 20,000 yen each as the Nikkei Stock Average a month earlier rose above the 20,000 mark for the first time in 15 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo