Fujita believes that “the starring role” belongs to the artisan, and trains artisans who take designs and plans and attribute them a form. He inherited technology passed down over 162 years, and is committed to the creation of products that adopt methods unique to Kyo-sashimono that other companies do not possess.

Having gained experience with the company in the areas of production, production control, sales and planning, he was appointed Kyoto plant manager in 2016. (right) Satoshi Fujita Director, deputy general manager of production and Kyoto plant manager. As a company, they have placed great emphasis on the continuation of their skills, with artisans getting their qualifications as certified woodwork technicians up until now, they have produced two traditional craftspeople. The company used Kyo-sashimono as a base and expanded into the field of interior decoration it had a hand in creating the interior and the furniture of the Homeiden State Banquet Hall in the New Showa Imperial Palace. The first in the dynasty studied for many years under the tutelage of a sashimono master of the Imperial Palace in 1856, he went independent and established himself as a Kyo-sashimono artisan in Ebisugawa in the south of Kyoto Imperial Palace. As a company, we have inherited our techniques

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