In Western countries, tipping is a daily behavior, but for Asian countries, this culture is still not popular and deeply rooted. Yuki Tatsumi is a waiter at a Japanese restaurant. One day when he was cleaning the table, he discovered that a customer had used the restaurants paper chopstick sets to fold into a three-dimensional work. So he regarded this behavior as a "tip" from the customer. Started his journey of collecting chopstick sets.
Taken from a sushi restaurant in Saitama Prefecture.
Taken from a snack bar in Shimane Prefecture.
Tatsumi observed that this phenomenon is not just done by one person, but many customers will leave this "thank you", so he collected them into his art series: Japanese Tip (Japanese Tip). Since 2012, Tatsumi has not only collected chopstick sets from the restaurants where he serves, but has also communicated his concept to restaurants and snack bars across Japan, thereby collecting "tips" on their tables.
Over the years, he has collected 13,000 origami works, some intricate and complex, some ugly and blurry. He recently exhibited 8,000 interesting works from 47 prefectures in Japan in Tokyo, and described his artistic concept in this way : "Japanese Tip is a plan between the restaurant and the guests. It uses the most common materials in Japanese restaurants to express "thank you for the food" and "thank you for the service."
Taken from a restaurant in Kochi Prefecture.
Taken from Sanchong County Coffee Shop.
Although the exhibition has ended, friends who like the creative concept of "Japanese Tip" can still follow his latest news through [here]!
