{"id":340,"date":"2009-04-30T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-04-30T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:13:38","slug":"japanese-secret-wooden-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/2009\/04\/30\/japanese-secret-wooden-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"japanese secret wooden boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was going through my mail and I found this way overdue draft. *paste*<\/p>\n

So Kenny was showing me this random wooden puzzle box that has a “secret” way of opening. The sob took me a good 10 minutes to figure out, even though I’ve opened it before when I was in hong kong.<\/p>\n

It turns out that it’s called a “malaysian magic box” of unknown wooden origin. But anyway,? the authentic japanese ones are called “himitsu bako” and they feature up to 50+ moves to open the damn wooden box.<\/p>\n

It’s kinda nice and since I’m always not acting my age, I prefer exquisite wooden stuff over cold hard steel now.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of sites that sell such stuff, do note that while I do not know all of them, they are more reasonably priced than other sites.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hakonemaruyama.co.jp\/secret-e.htm<\/a> << I bought some from here. It’s pretty reliable.
\nhttp:\/\/www.uniqueboxshop.com\/<\/a>
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http:\/\/www.karakuri.gr.jp\/creation\/invitation\/invitation.htm<\/a>
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http:\/\/www.karakuri.gr.jp\/creation\/purchase\/purchase.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was going through my mail and I found this way overdue draft. *paste* So Kenny was showing me this random wooden puzzle box that has a “secret” way of opening. The sob took me a good 10 minutes to figure out, even though I’ve opened it before when I was in hong kong. It turns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}