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Cherry blossom Totoro tableware, interior decoration line arrives for Ghibli-style sakura spring
Anime’s cutest forest spirit works his magic with Japan’s most beautiful flower. We’re half-way through February now, and with spring just around the corner. Pretty much everyone in Japan is starting to look ahead to cherry blossom season — little kids, working adults, senior citizens enjoying their retirement, and, yes, even Totoro. It actually makes a lot of sense for Totoro to be a hanami (cherry blossom-viewing) fan. He’s a forest spirit, after all, and there’s no tree Japan loves more than the sakura. The plushie pictured above is part of Studio Ghibli specialty store Donguri Kyowakoku’s Sakura 2023 Spring lineup, and he’s accompanied by a Soot Sprite riding on…
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National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., to return in person March 20
The Park Company predicted peak bloom to come about in between March 22 and 25. The Washington Post’s Capital Temperature Gang has predicted peak bloom for March 24, or within just a five-working day window of March 22 and 26. Tale carries on below advertisement The festival is a single of Washington’s most cherished traditions as the pink flowers sign the changeover to spring and mark the get started of the city’s tourism time. The competition — like other significant gatherings all over the world — was shuttered by the pandemic and compelled to uncover alternative approaches to celebrate. But as coronavirus instances in the Washington region development down and…
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Green home decor market set to blossom
Environmentally friendly furnitures are on display in Beijing on Sept 25, 2021. [Photo/IC] Eco-friendly new buzzword in sector amid rising awareness by consumers Zhang Yifeng, 32, has spent days finding environmentally friendly home decor items for his newly bought apartment. “We are expecting a baby and we don’t expect newly-purchased home decor materials to harm the baby’s health. Our top picks were those environmentally friendly even though that means we have to pay a little bit more,” the Beijing-based accountant said. For a long time, the home decor industry has been criticized due to potential pollution and high carbon emissions caused by product processing, and the use of materials that…
