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时尚、珠宝&手表、生活方式、美容、食品…
精通各种类型的个性丰富的编辑们,在GINZA SIX上闲逛
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想向世界夸耀! 再次发现日本的“美”和“矜持” A Claim Set Before the World: Rediscovering Japan’s Pride and Beauty
冈村佳代
GINZA SIX EDITORS Vol.48
开业以来无论去多少次,每次都会有一些新的发现GINZA SIX。将工作模式放在银银上进行调查的豪华品牌时装店,完全关闭模式下享受美食的餐厅…。在这种情况下,突然注意到了! 所有领域的一流“日本的骄傲”一下子相遇。
贪吃的我。坦率地坦白的话,出没率最高的楼层是B2F,但是除了时间充裕之外,还在珠宝店林立的2F进行巡逻(笑)。现在已经到了年纪,现在已经充满了感,但是为了打开耳环,正在认真计划开耳环的大本命日本女仆的珠宝品牌“AHKAH(Arca)”!
1997年成立的“Arca”。与世界著名的珠宝相比,其历史还是“年轻”,但它兼具纤细和大胆感的独特品味和珠宝制作,受到各个年龄层女性的喜爱。
在寻找耳环之前,被巨大的引力吸引,是几个项链就像一幅画一样展示出来的环节。用一条线表现光笔直延伸的样子的“蒂娜线珍珠项链”,以及在描绘缓慢弧线的曲线上设置钻石的“钻石项链”(以下全部不含税价格¥94000~¥310000)——一句话,“真心想要!”。因为工作关系,买到昂贵的高珠宝的机会很多,所以眼睛太肥了,应该是“不需要自己能买到价格的东西的病”!
总算抑制了大人买完全没有预定的项链的冲动,恢复了“寻找我的第一耳环”的初衷。说到“Arker”,我的印象是敏感的主题和个性形态的福普耳环。马上发现了“超级喜欢的类型?”!
K18黄金的胡普里,配上珍珠配上珍珠的“泡沫福普耳环”(¥168000)。所有的产品都是在日本,由熟练的工匠们制作的只有“Arca”才有的诺布尔,和不成为夫人的水灵灵的感性融合在一起,使脸部周围一下子变得华丽起来。太贵了的高珠宝(笑),从某种意义上来说被毒感染的“不需要自己买的价格的病”,多亏了“Arca”,完全治好了。不仅仅是在“画在画上的年糕”中叹息,有时也会认真地“能拿到手上的豪华啤酒”! 给自己奖励!
气势高涨,按照那种情绪向前走的是5F的“Saco-butic”。3月在瑞士巴塞尔举办的展销会上发表的,我也很热情地写了原稿的《Grand精工》女士模特的新作一直没有离开我的头脑。
遗憾的是,虽然没能和巴塞尔发表的限定模特的再会,但是这家店是日本第一家精工时装店开张的,只经营“Grand精工”和Saiko品牌的专卖店。平时备齐300件以上的丰富阵容是最精彩的! 我过了几年温暖人心的“Grand精工”,也有各种各样的变化,受到了诱惑(左・中央/40面切割的K18白金贝塞尔美丽的不锈钢手链类型各¥600,000右/简单的贝塞尔和若无其事的钻石索引的对比度是大人可爱的黑壳挂件类型¥300,000)。
现在让人心动的是漂亮颜色的挂件! 鲜艳的红色鳄鱼挂件加上酷酷的不锈钢材质盒,Mother of珍珠表盘的一汤匙的电梯奏出绝妙的平衡。
回想起来,我喜欢手表和手表的工作,也许是因为小学入学、高中入学和节骨眼父亲给我买精工手表的经验。考虑到这一点,我想把手表作为礼物送给明年大学生的侄女送礼物,于是检查了“精工路西雅”。
非常亲切地和我商量的是笑容灿烂的店长瓜生。我再次感受到,这种服务才是“精工品牌”。爱的侄女即使从大学生变成社会人,也能长期使用的手表——“精工路西雅”是第一候补! 希望明年春天能顺利合格,和侄女一起来选择。
私人GINZA SIX巡航中不可缺少的东西——那就是“美食”。因为喜欢和食,所以B2F的“刷毛海苔瓣登山”和“黑茶茶”的鲷鱼茶泡饭,13F的“天妇罗山上银座”,“月铃富”等等…是的,这里是仙境! 今天的午餐有点奢侈,用“月铃富”的寿司来奖励自己。总觉得一直在“奖励自己”。
银座的,而且GINZA SIX的寿司店! 有没有觉得门槛高的珠穆朗玛峰级左右的人? 我也是这样。
这家店是筑地的金枪鱼专业仲卸“铃富”直营的江户前寿司店。这是继筑地场外、纪尾井町的新大谷酒店之后,在银座开业的第三家店。像这样的室内装饰精致又豪华,但是有人情味的接待客人,气氛非常温暖!
今天在包场的单间柜台(最多6人・有单间费・需要预约)点了午餐菜单“羽衣”(¥5400)。前菜、一道菜、寿司7贯、卷物1根、碗就是这个价格! 珠穆朗玛峰级的人是性价比高。从日本全国各地聚集在筑地的时令美味中精选出的食材,加上专业的“工作”的寿司,眼睛也很美,诉诸五感的一切。
这是在留存季节的富山白虾配上海胆的军舰卷。白虾和海胆醇厚的甜味和口感的渐变让人佩服!
自家制的鸡蛋烧,特别好吃! 像纤细一样流畅的口气,不由得想再来一碗。
最高潮果然还是金枪鱼。青森的天然金枪鱼的瘦肉、中肥金枪鱼——“月铃富”的矜持,浓缩在这金枪鱼里。
不仅仅是寿司,一道菜也很丰富。油炸食品的“海鳗海鳗卷”(¥3000)是将清淡的海鳗和浓厚的海胆的对比,用脆炸好的衣服整理成一个的绝品。
珠宝、手表、还有寿司——虽然领域不同,但在GINZA SIX上,让我们感受到了日本的“匠”、“粹”以及“审美意识”的幸福时光。面向2020年,一定能成为真心享受这个进化的空间的大人。
Text:Kayo Okamura Photos:Sachiko Horasawa(CROSSOVER) Edit:Yuka Okada
I’ve visited GINZA SIX numerous times since it opened, but I always make new discoveries every time I come. In full-on work mode, I research luxury brand boutiques. In full-on leisure mode, I visit the restaurants to enjoy wonderful food. Once, operating in both modes, I suddenly noticed something! And that’s that visitors here have the opportunity to encounter wares embodying the apogee of Japanese pride in nearly every field.
I’m a real food lover. Honestly, I’d say I spend more time on B2F than anywhere else. But unless I’m really pressed for time, I go on patrol [smiling] on 2F, which is filled with jewelry boutiques. The older I get, the more I feel I’ve missed out on things. Now I’m seriously considering getting my ears pierced, so I head to AHKAH, a store that sells made-in-Japan jewelry. It’s a sure bet for finding a suitable first pair of pierced earrings!
AHKAH was established in 1997. It might be a fairly young brand compared to the world’s renowned jewelers, but it has a unique outlook that merges the subtle and the bold. It’s remained a popular jewelry maker with women across a wide span of age brackets.
Before I start my earring hunt, I find myself drawn immediately to a display of necklaces arranged as though part of a single picture. There’s the Tina Line Pearl Necklace, where the pearls stretch out in a single luminous line; and there’s the Diamond You Necklace, featuring diamonds set in a gentle arc (priced at between 94,000 yen and 310,000 yen: all prices listed before tax). My visceral sense is: I want one! Due to the nature of my work, I have lots of opportunities to handle expensive high jewelry. I’m too much the connoisseur, in a sense. It’s something that’s made my disease of always wanting things I can’t actually afford even worse!
I somehow manage to suppress the impulse to splurge on something I had absolutely no intention of buying in the first place and reset to my core mission of finding my first pair of pierced earrings. My image of AHKAH is of hoop earrings with delicate motifs and distinctive shapes. And, immediately, I find a pair I like!
These are the Bubble Hoop Pierced Earrings, featuring pearls placed asymmetrically on K18 yellow gold hoops (168,000 yen). They combine the refinement of AHKAH, all of whose products are made in Japan by skilled artisans, with a freshness that keeps the wearer from looking like too much a middle-aged lady. The combination illuminates the face. My disease of always wanting things I can’t actually afford, which stems from an infection caused by constant exposure to the highest of high jewelry [smiling], has been completely cured, thanks to AHKAH! Their products aren’t pie in the sky items that just make you sigh. They’re luxuries you can actually afford; you only have to grab one when you’re really in the mood to treat yourself!
Taking heart and with excitement riding high, I head to the Seiko Boutique on 5F. Ever since I wrote a feverish piece about them, I’ve been unable to get the new ladies’ models in the Grand Seiko collection, unveiled at a fair held in March in Basel in Switzerland, out of my mind. That’s why I’m here.
Unfortunately, I can’t enjoy a reunion with the limited-edition models released at the time in Basel. But this store, which is Japan’s first Seiko Boutique and sells only Grand Seiko and other Seiko-brand products, is positioned as a specialty store. The product lineup is incredible: more than 300 items on display at any one time! The Grand Seiko line, which I’ve increasingly warmed to over the past few years, lures me in thanks to its wide range of products (left/center: 40-surface cut K18 white-gold bezel mounted on a beautiful stainless-steel bracelet, 600,000 yen each; right: a simple bezel makes a good contrast with the unobtrusive diamond index, integrating grown-up and girlish tastes, 300,000 yen for the crocodile-skin strap model).
Above all, I’m drawn to the striking color of the strap. The bright-red crocodile-skin strap, the classy stainless-steel case, and the mother-of-pearl dial provide an exquisite harmony of elegance.
Come to think of it, the reason I’ve come to love watches and working with watches may be that whenever I marked a turning point in my life, like entering elementary school or high school, my father bought me a watch as a memorable gift. Remembering that, I realize I’d like to give my niece, who’s planning to enter university next year, a nice watch as a present, such as Seiko Lukia.
I’m given a lot of advice by the store manager, Ms. Uryu, who’s friendly and has a lovely smile. I’m reminded this hospitality is the hallmark of the Seiko brand. I want a watch my beloved niece can use for many years, from university and after she ventures out into the world, and the top candidate is the Seiko Lukia range. Next spring, assuming she passes the entrance exam, I hope to return with her to choose a watch.
When I’m cruising GINZA SIX on my own time, one thing I can’t miss out on is delicious food. I adore Japanese cuisine. Here I’m in wonderland, thanks to B2F shops and cafes like Hakejyoyu Noribenyamanobori and Kurogi Chacha, famous for sea bream chazuke (cooked rice with green tea poured over rice), and 13F restaurants like TempuraYamanoue Ginza and Tsukiji Suzutomi, and so on. For lunch today, although I feel like I’ve been rewarding myself all day, I decide to reward myself that much more with a bit of luxury: sushi at Tsukiji Suzutomi.
This is the Ginza sushi restaurant and the GINZA SIX sushi restaurant. I’m sure many would pause before entering such an exclusive place, regarding this as something like an ascent of Mount Everest. I’m one of these people myself.
It’s an Edo-style sushi restaurant operated directly by a Suzutomi, a specialist tuna dealer from Tsukiji. It’s the third such restaurant, following one in the district next to the Tsukiji fish market and one inside the Hotel New Otani in Kioi-cho. Apparently, the company had been looking for an opportunity to open a restaurant in Ginza. Here’s the interior. It’s refined and luxurious, but the hospitality is friendly, and the ambiance is warm.
Today I order the Hagoromo lunch set menu (5,400 yen) in a private room with a counter-style table. (The room seats six. There’s a fee to use for the room, and a reservation is required.) The set menu includes an appetizer, one a la carte dish, seven pieces of sushi, one sushi roll, and a bowl of soup. All that for the one flat price! As high-end as Mount Everest, it’s still great value for money. The carefully selected seasonal flavors arrive at Tsukiji from all over Japan. The professionally prepared sushi is aesthetically pleasing, appealing to all five senses.
This is a battleship roll of end-of-season Japanese glass shrimp from Toyama garnished with sea urchin. I loved the mellow sweetness and the varying textures of the shrimp and sea urchin!
This homemade rolled omelette, too, is a rapture, smooth and melting in my mouth like a soufflé. I have to resist the urge to order another helping.
And for the climax…tuna! Surely a certain portion of the pride of Tsukiji Suzutomi rests in this natural lean tuna and medium-fatty tuna from Aomori.
The restaurant serves more than just sushi. There’s also a wide range of a la carte dishes. This deep-fried conger eel and sea urchin roll (3,000 yen) is a delight, with the contrast between the light flavor of the eel and the rich flavor of the sea urchin packed into a crispy deep-fried wrapping.
Jewelry, watches, and sushi. The wares may run the gamut, but I’ve spent a delightful time at GINZA SIX during which I experienced Japan’s artisanship, sophistication, and aesthetic sense. This space is bound to evolve still further in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics. I hope I remain an adult being capable of enjoying all this with all my heart.
Text:Kayo Okamura Photos:Sachiko Horasawa(CROSSOVER) Edit:Yuka Okada
冈村佳代
珠宝&手表记者。东京都出身。在大学期间,作为《JJ》特派记者开始写作活动。之后成为自由职业者,还参与了《LEON》、《STORY》的创刊等活动,扩大了活跃的领域。以从事手表专业的穆克的编辑和执笔为契机开眼了他的魅力。作为通过《Precious》等媒体向女性启蒙机械式手表魅力的第一人而广为人知,巴塞尔&日内瓦时钟展销会的采访经历是女性记者屈指可数的职业生涯。
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