fuwa fuwa (shunyata series) Oil on Canvas 2009 72x48 © Junko Yamamoto

Add a touch of Japan to your interior this winter. The Pacific Northwest has a rich array of Japanese furniture and art to choose from.

Nothing Drab about This Shopping Bag

Bruce Rutledge talks to Seattle artist Enfu

Eighty-one years ago, Fujimatsu Moriguchi drove his delivery truck around Tacoma’s thriving Japan Town to sell fishcakes to Japanese fishermen, farmers and loggers. He’d stop by the Sisson House where the laborers stayed or drive down to the sawmills and fishing camps to sell the laborers lunch. Pretty soon, those fishcakes were flying off the back of the truck. Moriguchi couldn’t have known it at the time, but he was planting the seeds of what would grow over the next eight decades into a family empire.

Ken Taya (aka Enfu) talks to Bruce Rutledge

Enfu calls himself a “hamburger and sushi eatin’ samurai cowboy.”