Collection: AtelierToshindo

STYLE OF JAPAN is a "sustainable lacquered chopstick craft where people and nature coexist and prosper together.

Commitment to Our Products
Our products are Pure Japan Made chopsticks produced in the forests of Fukui Prefecture.
We use internationally certified PEFC-certified wood (thinned wood) produced in Fukui Prefecture as the material for our chopsticks, and all manufacturing processes are completed in the Wakasa lacquerware production area, which has a 400-year history and tradition.

Our aim is to connect the beautiful nature with human life and to balance the global environment with the future of manufacturing.
We are also trying to elevate the chopsticks, a symbol of Japanese culture, to the status of "Hashi", a globally accepted cutlery like MANGA.
Using the history and technology of a 400-year old traditional crafting center, we have added modern methods of expression and a new manufacturing system, and have also taken on the aspect of social design to solve the problem of global climate change through the familiar chopsticks.

Enrich your life with "Urushi" ware.

"J COCOMO" is a product brand of lacquerware, an ancient Japanese craft. The material that brings out the unique beauty of lacquerware is genuine lacquer, multi-roll lacquer, but can be freely adapted to any color and shape, enhancing the beauty of lacquerware.

The expression is both modern and elegant. The brand name "j cocomo" is a play on the words "urushi" meaning "a new way of enjoying lacquerware."

The brand name "j cocomo" expresses our desire to convey the spirit, things, and objects of Japan.

Commitment to Our Products:

• The most suitable place of production, the most suitable technique j cocomo's products are handmade by Japanese lacquer craftsmen.
• From a unique network cultivated in Japan, we select production sites and craftsmen with the best techniques for the finished design of our products.
• Every product we deliver to you is a rare and precious item imbued with warmth and thought.
• We promise that each product we deliver to you is a rare and valuable item filled with warmth and thought.

To live is to eat

Nekojitadou provides an opportunity to regain the joy of eating through cutlery developed by a group of friends who have experienced cancer. Through the community, we update the world with the new value of peer-made products (designed by friends who share the same problems and challenges) from the perspective of those who have been affected by cancer. To live life to the fullest in the everyday life that goes on forever.

Commitment to Our Products
Our Mission
～To live is to eat

To create a world where people who have problems with eating can live their lives in their own way
to a world where people with eating problems can live their lives in their own way.

Vision
Our vision is to transmit the viewpoints that we have realized only because we have been involved in the problem as a new value
[We will transmit the viewpoints that we have realized only because we are involved in the issue as a new value of "peer-made" (design by people who have the same problems and issues),
We will update society.

Value
Perspectives born from experience
[We draw out perspectives from experiences where things we thought were "obvious" are no longer "obvious,
We update the world by drawing out perspectives from our experience and transforming them into products and services.

Connection is power
[By creating opportunities for people to feel that they are not alone, connections are created,
By creating opportunities for people to feel that they are not alone, we bring out the power to make choices that allow each person to live their own life.

From Peer Made to New Value
[Through "peer-made" services, we will work together with you to realize a society where people do not have to give up no matter what their circumstances,
We will work together with everyone to realize a society where people do not have to give up no matter what their circumstances.

Nekkodo Founder
Atsuo Shibata Atsuko Shibata
She has worked as a nurse for 24 years. 2014, she was diagnosed with parotid cancer (adenoid cystic carcinoma) and experienced surgery and chemoradiotherapy. Through these experiences, she realized the barrier of eating. She also learned that interaction with others in the same situation can be a source of support for living. She decided to start her own business to support the idea that "to live is to eat, and to eat is to live. I would like to update society with the values I have realized through my cancer experience.

The name "Kikusada" was initially adopted as a trade name by Sadakichi Koizumi, the fifth generation of Koizumi Seigawara, a tile manufacturer with a heritage spanning ten generations. Today, the brand name "Kikusada" represents the craftsmanship accumulated by Koizumi Seigawara over the past ten generations.

Commitment to Our Products:

• The "Shiki" series coasters are crafted using our tile-making technology, with the tiles exhibiting water-absorbing properties to soak up water droplets.
• The Gazen series of tableware also leverages the same tile-making technology, but in this case, the water absorbency is minimized by baking the tableware at an extremely high temperature, forming an oxidized film.