October 2023 Recent Report

In the past few days, it has suddenly become autumn.
How are you doing?

We are busy with our autumn exhibition season.
We are very busy with our work.

Here is a report on our recent activities.

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We are a member of “Tokyo Mounting Association”,
The website of “General Incorporated Association Tokyo hyogu kyozi naiso bunka kyokai”, to which our mounting shop belongs, has been renewed.
The website has been renewed.

We have a store in Saitama, but we are not a member of the Saitama mounting association,
More people in the same industry belong to it and have deep business connections,
We are a member of Tokyo’s mounting association, which has many more members in the same industry and has deeper business ties with them.
You can find our page as an introduction of the association members here.

In the “Announcements” page, you will find the following information, which we introduced in our blog the other day,
The page also includes an off-shot of a master craftsman after a stage demonstration at the “Monozukuri Takumi no Gijutsu no Matsuri 2023” (Festival of the Craftsmanship of Artisans 2023).
I am now a master craftsman! (No?).

And, on this page,
The results of the popularity vote for the “66th Omotesou ・ Interior Design Works Exhibition” held in June are posted here.
I am very honored to see that my work was ranked 4th among the many entries.
I think it was around 3rd or 4th place in last year’s (2022) popularity vote, so I am very honored. I think it was around 3rd or 4th place in last year’s (2022) popular vote,
Next year, I would like to aim for a higher position.
( Click here to see the process of making this work.)

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We have been tailoring and re-tailoring hanging scrolls ・, folding screens ・, frames ・, and fusuma (sliding screens) since the Meiji period.
This technique ・, which has been handed down from generation to generation, is generally called “Edo mounting”.
This “Edo mounting” was designated as a national “traditional craft” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in November last year (2022),
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) designated it as a national “traditional craft.

The Tokyo Mounting Keishi Interior Culture Association also has an article about “Edo Mounting” on this page
The designation is a great honor for us.

This designation means that “Edo mounting products” made with the traditional ・ technique and raw materials are now available for sale in Japan.
Edo Mounting’s products (works) made with the ・ traditional techniques and raw materials can be affixed with a “traditional certificate” if they pass the prescribed inspection.
The “Edo mounting products (works)” made by the “Edo mounting technique and raw materials

For those who are considering to have Edo mounting products such as hanging scrolls, scrolls, fusuma (sliding doors), byobu (folding screens), frames, etc., and who have passed a prescribed inspection, a “traditional certificate” can be affixed,
If you would like to have the “traditional certificate” affixed, please contact our mounting store.

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I am pleased to announce that at the August general meeting of the “Tokyo Mounting Sutra Interior Culture Association”, I (Mr. Katsunori Kato) was elected as a member of the association,
At the general meeting in August, I (Atsushi Mukasa) was elected as a board member.
The organization has a history of more than 80 years and has more than 150 members,
I am very proud to be a member of this organization.
I will do my best to live up to my title.

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these is a complete change of subject.

The members of the announcing club of a nearby high school wanted to take pictures of our
They wanted to film our shop.
They are going to edit the video together with other stores to make a documentary video.
The photo shows them filming a demonstration of stretching a shoji screen.
Although I am an apprentice mounting artist, I have said a lot of things in front of the camera,
I am an apprentice master of mounting, but I talked a lot of things in front of the camera,
I’m mixed feelings of wanting to see the finished video and not wanting to see it.

these is the latest report from our store.
The days with severe temperature changes are likely to continue,
Please take care of yourself.