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Table Ware
made in Japan
琺瑯 porcelain enamel
Its origin lies in the gold mask of Tutankhamen and the excavated artifacts from Mykonos in the Aegean Sea, which is estimated to date back to around B.C.1400-1300. This enamel tableware gives us somewhat nostalgic impression, which perhaps is coming from its history.Here we have blended the warm feeling into a modern design.
瀬戸焼 japanese porcelain
This Japanese porcelain has a modern shape that is formed by the traditional slip casting technique. Its carefully polished look makes the metallic color such as silver and gold shine like mirror surface.
Japanese Wood
欅（けやき）Japanese Zelkova
Master kiji0shi, craftsmen wooden products, use the characteristic grindingtechnique of Yamasaka lacquerware 'Rokuro-hiki to shape Keyaki tree. With its excellent wood grain, strength that bears friction, and the exceptional grow when polished, Keyaki has beautifully expressed patterns and texture of thenatural material to please the eye. Colors come in wood, which makes the most of the material itself, jet black, 朱赤青漆, both coated with urushi-nuri thelacquer coating, and silver that has been finished with black fuki-urushi
(wiping lacquer, one of the lacquer coating techniques) on silver coating.
These wooden paper cups have been ground as thin as possible-only 1mm thick. Elaborate techniques by dedicated kiwi-shi,
craftsmen for woden products, range from Tategidori, which involves cutting woods horizontally to make it hard to loose its shape, to very accurate Rokuro technique, which produced the excellent smoothness and made it high-quality feel.
Paulownia is not only one of the most esthetic Japanese wood materials with grace and quaint atmosphere, but also resistant to humidity, fire, and pests and doesn't decay easily. Therefore it was used in the wood mask of Shogoin Temple at B.C.700 and also can often be seen in the preserved historical collection at Todaiji Temple.
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