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Well-designed cypress bathtub bucket

SAWARA CYPRESS BATHTUB BUCKET is a wooden bucket with a handle. It is made to pour hot water inside and rinse the body at bath. The traditional shape of the bucket has not been changed for hundreds of years. You could see the same bucket even in Ukiyo-e in the Edo period. Having a handle makes it easy to carry hot water.

The material for the product is Sawara, which is the evergreen conifer of the cypress family. It has a unique reddish color and also resistant to acid and water. Therefore, it is hard to be damaged even when used in a wet bathroom and can be used for a long time.

From Kiso, remarkable wood producing area

The land of Kiso, Nagano Prefecture, Japan still has deep mountains with large trees of old age. Five different kinds of wood are known to represent the Kiso valley, that is, Hinoki, Sawara, Nezuko, Asunaro, and Koyamaki. Hinoki (i.e., cypress) is treated as the highest quality building material and has been carefully cultivated since ancient times. It is said that "Kiso Hinoki" is still used at the transition of the Ise Jingu Naiku, which is held once every 20 years, and many other shrines and temples are built with Kiso Hinoki as the main material. For the sake of the blessed soil and harsh climate, many high-quality wooden materials are produced, and the fine wood-producing areas attract skilled artisans, and many woodwork products have been produced in this area since the Edo period.

Work that can only be done with trees

In the Kiso region, it takes time for trees to grow due to the steep terrain and severe climate, but wood grown in a harsh environment is very durable, and the wood itself has properties that can be used for a long time. While many mass-produced products are made of timber of unknown origin, YAMAICHI chooses only heartwood of Kiso Hinoki that has been grown more than 100 years. In pursuit of things that are glad to be wood, and things that can only be done with wood, YAMAICHI manufactures from traditional products such as chests and pail to products that are familiar to modern life like cutting boards.