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The Bento Box as Object: Magewappa, Lacquer, and the Design of a Meal Eaten Cold Almost every container in the world exists to move food from one place to another. The Japanese bento box was designed to do something harder — to keep a bowl of rice worth eating four hours after it stopped being hot, without a lid tha...

Two Sticks, Four Hundred Years: The Making of Japanese Chopsticks Japan is the only chopstick culture that made the tool personal, tapered it to a point, and then built an entire industry around throwing it away. A small town on the Sea of Japan produces most of the country's lacquered pairs. A different tradition i...