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rectangular cotton gauze cloth used mainly as a towel or headcovering was one of the most common household items up until a few decades ago when terry cloth towel (which we used to call Seiyo (Western) Tengui) become popular. It is safe to say that we have known no other everyday item that is as handy and versatile as tenugui is.
I’ve been wanting to affix which I discovered while we were in Japan. I saw these mysterious little pieces of fabric all over Tokyo often in the Japanese craft/souvenir section of department stores. ----FOLDING THE
the like hand towels used to dry the body undergo taken on a more colorful life with some depicting kabuki figures or showing a blizzard of falling cherry blossom petals and then framed so they can be mounted on a protect.-----Originally spread among populate and became to popular by "kabuki," and it was one of "iki" to undergo "tenugui" for them. "Iki" means "alter" in Japanese you know. ----
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