{"id":214,"date":"2008-06-19T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-06-19T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T11:46:44","slug":"lono-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/06\/19\/lono-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"LONO Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/2591995706\/\" title=\"LONO of Japan by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3235\/2591995706_b23cf0f9ed_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"310\" alt=\"LONO of Japan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was in Japan, I was constantly searching for beautiful things to photograph, and sometimes, I do stumble into small, pretty and quaint little shops helmed by the creator themselves. Although my Japanese is poor (<span class=\"caps\">VERY<\/span>, <span class=\"caps\">VERY<\/span> poor), I do manage to make enough sense to tell them how much I love their work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/2591995140\/\" title=\"LONO of Japan by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3239\/2591995140_7fd42d4166_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"310\" alt=\"LONO of Japan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This little shop here is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lono.biz\"><span class=\"caps\">LONO<\/span><\/a>, and is created by Kazuyo. She makes each little doll by hand and paints them in her little studio in the Duce Mix building on Sanjo Street. She does wedding dolls too, and she paints on almost anything that can be painted on!<\/p>\n<p>Ateliers in Japan are usually small in size, so I was very inspired by how she used her space &#8212; it is her studio (although I didn&#8217;t manage to take a shot at it, she has a small table with a iMac on it, and a lot of acrylic paint bottles with brushes), and also a small little mini shop-front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/2591158339\/\" title=\"LONO of Japan by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3275\/2591158339_256905c1db.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"310\" alt=\"LONO of Japan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>A small table with her painted goodies &#8212; dolls, shakers and other toys<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/2591994952\/\" title=\"LONO of Japan by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3005\/2591994952_73f5daea63_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"310\" alt=\"LONO of Japan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>A close-up of her painted toys &#8212; she pays great attention to detail<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pikaland\/2591995314\/\" title=\"LONO of Japan by pikaland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3073\/2591995314_928b9b00a8_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"310\" alt=\"LONO of Japan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>A wall of softies!<\/h5>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be sifting through my photo pile in the next coming weeks, so stay tuned! (The pile is <span class=\"caps\">BIG<\/span>, and sometimes I forget what I have in there!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"LONO Japan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/06\/19\/lono-japan\/\" aria-label=\"More on LONO Japan\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}