{"id":15771,"date":"2010-12-23T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15771"},"modified":"2010-12-23T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:59:56","slug":"justins-japan-an-origami-tree-grows-in-rockefeller-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/23\/justins-japan-an-origami-tree-grows-in-rockefeller-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: An Origami Tree Grows in Rockefeller Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minamoto Kitchoan's origami Christmas tree. (Courtesy of Yasushi Sasaki\/Two Rivers Associates)<\/p><\/div>\n

By JQ magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page <\/em><\/strong>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Minamoto Kitchoan<\/a>, the Midtown Japanese wagashi<\/em> (confectionery) shop with over 150 locations worldwide, is currently sporting a Christmas tree made up of 3,000 origami cranes, or orizuru<\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to store management, \u201cThe orizurus symbolize peace. They were made by kindergarten and elementary students in Japan and sent to New York as a tribute to the WTC Visitor Center<\/a>.\u201d This special Christmas tree was unveiled earlier this month at Minamoto Kitchoan\u2019s Fifth Avenue store in the heart of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve decided to create an orizuru<\/em> Christmas Tree in remembrance of tragic events of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001,\u201d management explains. \u201cEach orizuru comes with heartfelt hopes for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

This sweet gesture is complemented by Minamoto Kitchoan\u2019s own mission, which management says is to expand their business to every country in the world so that all can further experience and understand the beauty of Japanese culture through traditional Japanese wagashi, whether it\u2019s Fukuwatshi Senbei (Japanese style vanilla cream filled cookie), the savory Benihana Ringo (apple cinnamon flavored bean jelly), or the delectable Kurizutsumi (red Bean paste and large piece of chestnut wrapped and baked in pie crust, topped with black sesame).<\/p>\n

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By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Minamoto Kitchoan, the Midtown Japanese wagashi (confectionery) shop with over 150 locations worldwide, is currently sporting a Christmas tree made up of 3,000 origami cranes, or orizuru. According to store management, \u201cThe orizurus symbolize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,119,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-fix","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t