ofuro being installed in vancouver

testing the tub

\n\nThis is the photo of the tub we shipped to Vancouver being installed.\nFor me being used to cramped japanese residences with small rooms and \"virtual\" gardens it is always a nice surprise to see the generosity of space of an american home...\n\nAlso it is always a fresh surprise for me to see the same tub that I saw last month in the hands of our carpenter Wada-san while he was drinking tea... The tub is now in a completely different reality, surrounded by smiling westerner`s faces... \nThere is maybe a positive side to globalization, where people living 10000 miles away from Japan can put in our homes a real Japanese bathtub, made by hand by an experienced (and sometimes a little grumpy) japanese craftsman!