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For four centuries, the town of Obama in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, has manufactured lacquered chopsticks. Obama’s lacquered chopsticks have been recognised as the hardest and most beautiful of Japanese lacquer chopsticks since the seventeenth century, when they became known as ‘Wakasa-nuri’. We designed new chopsticks in collaboration with Hashikura Matsukan, a manufacturer who continue Obama’s traditional manufacturing techniques today. Round chopsticks are slippery to use, but overly square-cornered ones aren’t as comfortable to hold. We explored ways of increasing the surface area of chopsticks in the hand, as a way of improving holding comfort, and discovered the natural form of the pleated cross-section. When viewed as a cross-section, the chopsticks look like flowers, so a bunch of chopsticks kept together into a cup turns into a ‘bouquet’.
四个世纪以来，日本福井县的奥巴马镇制造了漆筷子。自17世纪以来，奥巴马的漆筷子被认为是日本最难和最美的漆器筷子，当时它们被称为“Wakasa-nuri”。我们与Hashikura Matsukan合作设计了新的筷子，Hashikura Matsukan是一家继承奥巴马传统制造技术的制造商。圆形筷子很滑，但过于方形的筷子不太舒服。我们探索了增加手中筷子表面积的方法，作为提高握持舒适度的一种方法，并发现了褶皱横截面的自然形态。当被视为横截面时，筷子看起来像花朵，所以一堆筷子连在一起变成一个“花束”。）
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