The scenery of Shiitake cultivation from Kyushu.

Kintsugi regenerates a broken object and brings it back to the daily use again.
This authentic Japanese repair technique creates a new life in the objects that are broken by accident or by aging and

A compact bathmat in YUKINE is available now.
Just as the name of Yukine, YUKI = snow, YUKINE gives

It was in 2018, when I encountered SHINTO TOWEL.
The young owner of SHINTO TOWEL, Takashi Shinto, is the 5th generation in their family business founded in

This mending was for the jacket made by an Italian high-end brand.

Funagata Bag by Kazumi Takigawa
Being made of waxed cotton and dyed with recycled materials such as coffee and tea, she produces each piece by herself. She's been working mainly for gallery and

Sometimes I take mending orders from my customers and would like to show you one example, which I recently took.

Japanese classic animation film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, made based on the Manga series illustrated by Miyao Hayazaki in 1984.

Last Monday, I visited Phytodor, which produces EM sana cosmetic products. It was such a wonderful meeting and also excursion alongside Vierwaldstättersee.

Prof. Higa, the discoverer of EM and the founder of EMRO Japan, appears in the documentary program "Low Tech on the High Seas," aired on the French/German TV station ARTE. The purpose of this program is to sail around the world on the catamaran "Nomade des mers" to find ingenious low-tech solutions to the world's problems. In Okinawa, they came to learn "Bokashi composting" from Prof. Higa.

Unexceptional exquisite work by Takehito Ichikawa has finally arrived. Each wood have an history and character, and his work makes them speak by themselves and regain the lives in other form as dry flower vases.