Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

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Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan is the blog of Simon Gibson, a New Zealander living in Tokyo, Japan. Focused on New Zealand, Japan, web design and other shiny things.

Is this the most expensive doll ever!!!!

Found this Japanese doll set for sale on the Japanese shopping site Rakuten.

The price quoted is 100,000,000.00 JPY which converts to roughly $970,718.970 USD. Is this for real????

You can check it out for yourself here: 闇市(特定客様用の特設ページです).

The first 2 characters mean black market…

Gift Ideas from the Silk Road

While a camel might be out of the question, here are some of the fascinating things we have found that would make wonderful gifts:

  • Carpets - with their own distinctive style, carpets from Xinjiang, handmade by the local Uighur minority certainly add a touch of Central Asia
  • Knives - great as presentation pieces Uighur knives take one right back to the age of bandits and Silk Road thieves
  • Gourds - locally grown and hand-decorated Xinjiang gourds make for wonderful discussion pieces
  • Bird Cages - delicate hand made wooden bird cages take one back to nightengales and the 1001 Nights
  • Silk - the Silk Road was named after the silk traded between China and the Middle East and today the tradition lives on with Atlas Silk