A Woven(ish) “What am I?” Quiz
What am I? -- Gekkeikan Okura Museum (月桂冠大倉記念館) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2014 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
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What am I?

I came across this today and knew it'd be a great What am I? quiz. If you want to cheat, the image metadata includes a hint. Maybe. 😉

As always, I'll keep any guesses private until I reveal the answer in a day or two.


All 8 comments so far, oldest first...

One of those “tree wraps” ?

— comment by Grandma Friedl, Ohio, USA on January 26th, 2014 at 12:04am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

Part of a fence or space divider?

— comment by An Expat on January 26th, 2014 at 2:25am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

I’m going with a thatched Bamboo roof or protective covering of some type

— comment by Mchael on January 26th, 2014 at 3:38am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

I couldn’t resist and I cheated… Particular of a sake barrel?

— comment by Gianluca on January 26th, 2014 at 5:05am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

I cheated. Gekkeikan Okura Museum (月桂冠大倉記念館) gave out the answer ~!

Bamboo strips of big s*k* b*rre*.

— comment by Anonymous on January 27th, 2014 at 3:03pm JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

A woven dried bamboo fence.

Alvin From NYC.

— comment by Alvin on January 28th, 2014 at 7:37am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

The answer is given on this post.

— comment by Jeffrey Friedl on January 28th, 2014 at 10:06am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink

I thought for 2 days after Martin pointed the quiz out to me. None of the things I imagined were barrel hoops. Good one! 😀

— comment by Will on January 30th, 2014 at 9:55am JST (10 years, 2 months ago) comment permalink
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