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...Price in Japan of a small box of Sato Nishiki cherries, also known as "red diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...Suigei's kura is chilly and dark and reeks sweetly of fermenting rice. The first step in the sakemaking process is the milling and polishing of rice. The more it is polished, the higher the grade of sake. For Suigei's top-grade daiginjo, each grain of famed Yamada nishiki rice is polished until just 30% remains. The rice is then washed and soaked in giant tanks, and poured into vats for steaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Grain | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

Suigei's kura is chilly and dark and reeks sweetly of fermenting rice. The first step in the sakemaking process is the milling and polishing of rice. The more it is polished, the higher the grade of sake. In Suigei's top-grade daiginjo, each grain of famed Yamada nishiki rice is polished until just 30% remains. The rice is then washed and soaked in giant tanks, and poured into vats for steaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champagnes of Sake | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...before troops were sent for the rescue operation? Many people could have been removed from the rubble if the authorities had responded quickly. In the future, similar quakes will hit other parts of the country, but the first upheaval should come in the Japanese bureaucratic way of thinking. Tsukasa Nishiki Teddington, England

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...used to print a single color. In the early 18th century, print-makers were largely limited to various vegetable-based inks of red and yellow. By the 1740s, greens, blues and grays had been added to the spectrum. The artist Suzuki Harunobu is credited with developing the first nishiki-e, or full-color picture-named for nishiki-e, a richly embroidered brocade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: Unknown Masters in Wood | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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