Kyoto makers
Crafted in Kyoto, made to be used
Eleven workshops. Bamboo, lacquer, iron, indigo and paper — bought directly from the people who make it and shipped to Singapore.
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Enter the shopMiyawaki Baisen-an
Kyoto, founded 1823
The painter Tomioka Tessai gave the house its name in 1887. In 1902 forty-eight masters of the Kyoto art world painted its ceiling — it is still there, and still free to walk in and look up at. A finished fan has passed through an artisan's hands eighty-seven times.
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- 1688 Takemata opens in Kyoto
- 1823 The fan house opens
- 1898 Purveyor to the Imperial Household
- 87 Hands a single fan passes through
Make it a set
Three pieces from the same table: the tray, the chopsticks and the rest they sit on.
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Japanese Bamboo Zaru Tray – Raised FootFrom ¥17,990
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The bamboo that holds a hillside
Takano Chikko was founded in 1968 in Nagaokakyō, in the Nishiyama-Otokuni district that Kyoto’s bamboo has come from ... -
Why no two Kyoto iron kettles are alike
Heian Shojudo opened on Kyoto’s Teramachi street in 1885, working mainly in copper and iron. Kyoto Prefecture lists i... -
The ceiling forty-eight painters made
Miyawaki Baisen-an has sold fans in Kyoto since 1823. The name is not the founder’s: the painter Tomioka Tessai gave ...
The workshops
Eleven houses, one shelf
A fan house founded in 1823, a bamboo workshop trading since 1688, an indigo dye house on the Hozu river. We buy directly from each of them — no distributor between the bench and your table.