Japanese bamboowork

thumb|A selection of makisu mats with bamboo sticks of different thicknesses

thumb|The writer Sei Shōnagon standing behind a thumb| protecting the view to the Imperial throne in the of Kyoto Imperial Palace thumb|Less formal (but still cloth-bound) in a common home; from the more brightly-lit side, they are opaque thumb| on a train; from the more dimly-lit side, they are transparent

vessel used for steaming in East Asian cuisine

a tiling of the plane by regular hexagons and equilateral triangles, with each edge separating both types of shape

thumb|right|upright=1.7|A miniature at the Costume Museum (Kyoto)|Costume Museum in Kyoto