Turn the heater on!
Feb. 10th, 2006 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusA couple of weeks ago I complained that Japanese houses are freezing in winter. But it has to be said that if they weren't so cold, they wouldn't be so cool... I mean they wouldn't contain the little focused, glowing points of happiness which are Japanese heaters. The pictures here show some I've collected over the past few weeks, starting with a kerosene heater I saw today in Kyoto's Efish Cafe, a heater identical to one we used to have in Scotland when I was a child at our cottage in Auchterarder.
Other heaters, painted in bright primary colours, look like lawnmowers or support a bubbling kettle, an Asian tradition which goes back thousands of years, and somehow makes me think of a Chinese hermit in a small mountain hut, reading poetry as he huddles over his heater and sips his cup of tea. Honestly, who needs more from life?
Other heaters, painted in bright primary colours, look like lawnmowers or support a bubbling kettle, an Asian tradition which goes back thousands of years, and somehow makes me think of a Chinese hermit in a small mountain hut, reading poetry as he huddles over his heater and sips his cup of tea. Honestly, who needs more from life?