COLLECTIONS

Wahokudō

Wahokudō makes Japanese tea whisks (chasen) in Takayama, Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture — a town that has been the centre of chasen production since the Muromachi period. Each whisk is made by Tango Tanimura, the 20th-generation head of the Tanimura family. The lineage has been making chasen for more than 500 years, and during the Edo period was granted the name "Tango" by the Tokugawa shogunate. The techniques pass through a single heir in each generation, and the work is...

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Rin & Co.

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Meizen Kiln

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Chugai Tōen

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CANDLES

Wa Rousoku (和ろうそく) are traditional Japanese candles, made for centuries with a wick quite different from a Western one. The core is washi (Japanese paper), wrapped with tōshin (灯芯) — a length of soft pith drawn from the inside of rush-grass stems. That thicker wick absorbs more wax and burns with a larger, brighter flame — one that moves, holds longer, and softens a room in a particular way. At the moment, this collection is one piece: Nakagawa's Wa Rousoku,...

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ambai

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