Keep it long, treasure it long.

Chubby cute storage basket

A lovely madake waist basket with a lustrous bamboo texture and a shape that makes you want to pick it up. Traditional tools made from bamboo, which have supported the lives of Japanese people, continue to show their charm without fading even today, and continue to live while changing their uses.

Baskets made from natural materials are popular all over the world, but Japan is a bit special, as bamboo baskets are not only used as daily necessities, but are also developed as arts and crafts. Digging into history, bamboo baskets have been used as flower baskets in the world of tea ceremony since the time of Sen no Rikyu. Both the delicate bamboo crafts and the bamboo baskets used in daily life reflect the Japanese spirit of careful craftsmanship.

Matake that feels the change of time with colors

Aodake Zaiku is a bamboo craft that weaves baskets out of natural bamboo cut from the mountains without artificial treatment such as dyeing. Moso bamboo, light bamboo, and madake bamboo are often used for green bamboo work, but madake is said to be the most suitable material for bamboo work because of its supple elasticity and luster. Freshly woven green is beautiful, but the real pleasure of green bamboo work is that the color changes with time. It changes from “blue” to “golden” over time, to a calm “amber color” after a few years, and then to “dark brown” with a deeper shine after ten or twenty years. To go. The change in texture makes you feel the passage of time spent together, and the longer you use it, the more you become attached to it.

Enjoy change

A waist basket used for harvesting crops. With a wide oval mouth and a plump body, it's simple and lovely. The thick bamboo passed through the back of the rim was originally used to hang from the waist, but it can be used by hanging it on a wall by passing a string through it. It can be used for a variety of purposes, such as using its good breathability as a stock for vegetables or a laundry basket, or using its depth as a blindfold for flower pots or trash cans. While enjoying the color and luster that change as you use it, I think it will be an active presence in your room forever.

Know the tools that are rooted in your life

Different materials, different shapes and weaves for the same purpose. Basket products from all over Japan and around the world offer a glimpse of the characteristics of the region, the way of life that has taken root, and even the character of the people. increase.

Bamboo crafts in Miyagi, which are said to have started making baskets and colanders as a side job for samurai families since the Edo period, have been made from bamboo that grew wild in the area for tools in daily life and for business use. Precious manufacturing that is also a little bit. The people involved will be happy if it becomes an opportunity to learn about the enjoyment of continued use and the craftsmanship and environment that plastic products do not have.