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THE CASE FOR HERITAGE JAPANESE MATERIALS

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Visit our Materials Archive and Test Kitchen.

  • DISCOVER ancestral knowledge and local terroir that birth all of the foraged or farmed natural resources to create our heritage Japanese materials and techniques

  • EXPERIENCE first-hand the feeling, aroma, taste, and sounds of the theory and methodologies behind the work of farmers, restorers, and craftspeople

  • CONTRIBUTE to our field research by sharing actionable ideas to pursue physical, experiential, and social possibilities

  • APPLY learnings to professional practices or more sustainable living solutions, particularly toward physical or experiential products that can be used, worn, savored in-real-life today

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EXPLORE, EXPERIMENT, EXECUTE TOGETHER

Our opportunity to share what we’ve collected in the field, with the purpose of supporting professionals and semi-professionals achieve socially, culturally, and environmentally viable ways to incorporate Japanese heritage materials, and the techniques around them, into the creation of their work.

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