Tradition Meets Telegram: Kengo Kuma Curates "East Japan Project" from Mitsuboshi
Mitsuboshi, a new Japanese gift-sending service that combines traditional crafts with telegrams, has launched from Harmony Inc. It offers special gifts that convey the sender's taste and sentiments while deeply resonating with the recipient.
The product lineup primarily features traditional crafts, the crystallization of Japan's superb craftsmanship.
This time, we introduce products from "Ejp (East Japan Project)," a project where architect Kengo Kuma served as coordinator, collaborating with traditional craftspeople from Eastern Japan and designers from various countries to propose "new daily necessities."
We decided to sell these products in support of the activities of traditional craftspeople from Eastern Japan who continue to support disaster-stricken areas while creating daily necessities. Mitsuboshi currently handles 31 products from 7 brands of traditional crafts that Japan is proud of. The handling brands will be expanded sequentially, starting with "Ejp (East Japan Project)."
What is Ejp (East Japan Project) Products?
Products for a "new life." For example, products that are highly flexible and can be used in various ways based on a single system, adapted to different purposes. They apply traditional techniques and materials honed over many years, with properties that consume minimal artificial energy and resources in their natural state.
They possess usability and design optimized for the "place" called Japan, enabling a "new life" different from the past.
Product Name: "NARUCO Kokeshi Light"
This is a kokeshi-shaped LED light, handmade one by one using the potter's wheel technique of kokeshi artisans from Naruko Onsen, Miyagi Prefecture. The nostalgic kokeshi has been transformed into a light that seamlessly blends into modern living spaces and senses.
Production: Matsuda Kobo (Miyagi Prefecture) Design: NOSIGNER
Patterns: Solid Black / Black Border / Solid Red / Red Border / Rainbow
Material: Mizuki (Dogwood)
Dimensions: W55mm x D55mm x H225mm
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Product Name: "OTO"
A ceramic analog speaker for smartphones, born from a collaboration between the Danish product design unit KiBiSi and the Kasama ware potter Kosho Ito. OTO, which combines a bowl-like vessel with a wind instrument, amplifies the sound from the smartphone's built-in small speaker through the reverberation effect of its horn-shaped tube. The bowl part can also store small items.
Production: ITOATELIER (Kosho Ito) Design: KiBiSi
Materials: Ceramic / Walnut
Dimensions: Diameter 230mm x H115mm
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What is Mitsuboshi?
A gift service that combines traditional crafts and telegrams, embodying Japanese culture.
Telegrams can be easily arranged online.
Features 7 brands of crafts popular overseas.
Uses Echizen washi paper, with a 1500-year tradition, as the telegram mount.
Harmony Inc.
http://www.mitsuboshi-denpo.jp