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Hara-awase obi (典雅帯) or chūya obi (昼夜帯, "day-and-night obi ") is an informal obi [13] that has sides of different colours. Having been historically popular, the chūya obi is frequently seen in woodblock prints and photographs from the Edo and Meiji periods, and most chūya obi are vintage or antique pieces; they are not as ...
An obi (Japanese: 帯) is a strip of paper looped around a book or other product. This extends the term obi used for Japanese clothing; it is written with the same kanji . It is also referred to as a tasuki ( 襷 , another kimono accessory) , or more narrowly as obigami ( 帯紙 , "belt paper") .
OBI GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG is a German multinational home improvement supplies retailing company. It is headquartered in Wermelskirchen and operates 668 stores in Europe , of which 351 are in Germany.
The Oak Beach Inn, commonly referred to by the abbreviation OBI, was a Long Island nightclub located in Oak Beach, on Jones Beach Island near Captree State Park in the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County, New York.
Kenjogara obi showing the central patterned dokko stripe and two thinner, patterned hanazara stripes. The two varieties of hakata-ori (kenjo hakata-ori and mon ori hakata-ori) differ in their woven decoration, though both are a sturdy, stiff material often used as an obi without a lining, second fabric layer or stiffener.
An Obi is the central building in an Igbo homestead, one used most commonly as a place for the reception of guests. As such, it can also be looked at symbolically as a metaphor for the most important part, or heart , of any given place.
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe.It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus, also termed as the OBI EE Plus, is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business intelligence offerings.