"In the Edo period...recycling was very common among people.  Then after the economic growth that followed the war, the era of mass consumption began.  However now we realize we wasted so much and we should cherish things.  Every person has their own culture, history and aesthetic...so it would make for an interesting world...if people express and exchange those things with each other.  It would not be items mingled but also stories...and that creates a new culture."


via http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/no-place-like-here-pass-the-baton/