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'Kaga mizuhiki' crafts to decorate Kanazawa Station

KANAZAWA, Japan - Undated photo shows a traditional "Kaga mizuhiki string craft" of Ishikawa Prefecture, one of 300 art and craft items to be displayed at JR Kanagawa Station in the prefecture. The Hokuriku Shinkansen Line's Nagano-Kanazawa section is scheduled to begin operating in spring 2015.

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THE ART OF MIZUHIKI

THE ART OF MIZUHIKI==Date:Dec, 1982, Place:JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Women making tea

An elderly woman is being greeted on both sides by two younger women in a room with an alcove. The scroll is a painting of the nanga (southern school of Chinese painting), and plum blossoms are arranged in a vase. A box of tea ceremony confections tied with a red and white mizuhiki paper string is visible in front.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐38‐0]

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Women greeting each other

A young woman in a furisode kimono offers a greeting to her host in front of a tokonoma (alcove) with a byobu screen placed to the right. A gift box tied with a mizuhiki (red and white string) is presented. The young woman is expressing thanks for something with this greeting.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐31‐0]