I recently rediscovered in my garage a 2007 copy of +Item mag from Japan. It is segmented issue from Natural Gardening magazine. NGMagazine focuses on gardening with an emphasis on ZAKKA ("the art of seeing the savvy in the ordinary and mundane".) using "junk" and found objects in gardening.
here is a little sampling the goods found within this issues covers.
Japanese magazines are so great because they are like glorified product catalogs that have heaps of images and great details, and unlike American rags, they have very little, if any, advertisements!
Most even have great "how to" sections on all sorts of subjects. In this case it is building various containers and storage items.
And since the images and drawings are very detailed you can easily figure out what is going on if you do not know your hiragana, katakan or kanji.
This copy also has a section that gives a lesson on how to display and arrange items, just so, in your garden.
I love Japan and I really love Japanese magazines.
Happy Digging!
Cheers.
