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Black persimmon trees
The atmosphere which is created by monotone of black and white
creates for us a spiritual world separate from daily life. This
rare and precious wood which is heterogeneous in structure and
never can be worked by modern industrial methods. This is bacause
the wood from each original tree and every one of the boards
milled from the wood are so different that they easily crack
and distort when dried, so we have to pay much more care to them
than on any other material. The most important thing, however,
is to use a good taste and give careful consideration making
use of its grain. This is possible only by painstaking craftsmanship.
This is the wood which "Matsudaira Fumai", a famous
master of tea ceremony loved.
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Keyaki(A Japanese tree of the genus
Zelkova)
It is said that when we Japanese think of wood grain, the
first thing which comes to our mind is keyaki. From the Edo period
to the present day, the use of beautiful and solid wood grain
in the structural pillars, alcoves and "Engawa" (walkways)
has lightened the severity of the Japanese house. This wood is
also used to manufacture traditional utensils such as bowls,
trays and lacquerware. In our workshop, we also manufacture less
traditional items such as tables, shoehorns, spoons and containers.
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Chestnut tree
From the older days, this wood has been used for foundations
and roofs of houses, and for water utensils such as dippers and
bowls for kneading. We are using it to manufacture items suitable
for modern life, such as tables, trays, coasters, spoons etc.
With your support, We wish to take up the challenge of creating
new field of wood craft.
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