{"id":22088,"date":"2026-03-14T23:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:42:13","slug":"daily_4028_-_beautiful_bowls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/daily_4028_-_beautiful_bowls\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4028 &#8211; beautiful bowls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4028_bowls.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things I bought in Japan: beautiful bowls.<\/p>\n<p>I have a bit of a weakness for beautiful bowls. I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to say that I collect them, but I occasionally buy some. Especially if they are green. (One of my favourites is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/daily_519_-_half_a_bowl\/\">the one that broke<\/a> and managed to mend so well that I&#8217;m still using it a decade later.) Whenever I randomly browse the shelves at a thrift shop, I look for (i) wool clothes, (ii) cool fabric scraps, and (iii) interesting small bowls before anything else. I have a tiny souvenir bowl from Venice (from my first visit there in the early 2000s) and an olive wood bowl that I know I also got on a trip but now can&#8217;t remember which one.<\/p>\n<p>Ceramics were on my shopping list for the Japan trip, and Ingrid and I visited several ceramics shops.<\/p>\n<p>The ones that kept catching my eye were the simplest, cheapest, most rustic ones. Very convenient to have a cheap taste! I came home with one platter and three small bowls, about the size of my palm. The platter matches one of the bowls, and although the three bowls don&#8217;t match each other, they have some kind of kinship, still. Maybe they were made at the same workshop? I didn&#8217;t check.<\/p>\n<p>The platter will mostly come out as a serving dish for fancier meals, but the bowls are perfect for everyday use: for storing half a lemon, or serving a handful of cherry tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4028_bowls_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4028_bowls_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I bought in Japan: beautiful bowls. I have a bit of a weakness for beautiful bowls. I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to say that I collect them, but I occasionally buy some. Especially if they are green. (One of my favourites is the one that broke and managed to mend so well that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,800,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-japan","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22094,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions\/22094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}