An Okinawa-based ceramist, Yamamoto studied ceramics at the Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts, before training with Jissei Omine. Today, he works from his studio in the village of Yomitan. His work is characterized by a desire to reveal the raw charm and natural texture of clay, deliberately avoiding over-processing.

Masamitsu Saito is a collector and researcher of bamboo art. His collection, from the Edo period to the present day, has contributed to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he works to promote this craft in Japan and internationally.

Born in Kyoto in 1948, Shinichiro Yoshida is an artist and director of the Kinsel Asa-fu Research Institute. Marked by his meeting with Joseph Beuys in Germany in 1977, he devoted himself to the study of ancient Japanese art and folklore. He built up a collection of hemp and ramie textiles from the Edo period, which he studied and exhibited in several museums in Japan.

A glass artist originally from Fukuoka and now based in Kyoto, she creates glass boxes inspired by nature, designed to hold precious objects. She conceives her Toki no Hako - “boxes of time” - as caskets for that which has intimate value: a ring, a stone, a leaf, or even air. Made by kiln-molding, then sculpted and sandblasted at length, her works invite us to give new meaning to things we forget.

Born in 1976 in Karatsu, Yano trained at the Arita College of Ceramics before joining the Tonoyama family kiln in 2004.
He draws his inspiration from ancient Karatsu ceramics, which he studies in depth, preparing clay and glazes himself.
His pieces - vases, bowls, sake cups - pay tribute to the forms and techniques of the Momoyama period.

Kamisoe is a Karakami boutique and workshop founded in 2009 in a renovated house in Nishijin, Kyoto. Ko Kado, its founder, trained in design in Kyoto and New York, learned the art of Karakami in a traditional workshop before creating Kamisoe. He makes custom sliding doors, stationery and bindings, and has collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto, creating prints from handwritten sheet music.