Press & Recognition
Where Tsujikura
has appeared
Publications and spaces that do not feature ordinary craft
Three times the wagasa was the subject.
Vogue Japan returned to Tsujikura's atelier three times across nine years. Each visit produced images in which the wagasa was not used as a prop or a cultural reference — it was the subject.
The form, the light it carries, the space it creates around itself.
The New York Times — August 25, 1985
40 years ago,
the same observation.
"Carrying a paper umbrella in the gentle rain of Kyoto is more than just a way of keeping dry."
Tsujikura appeared in the New York Times under the headline "Umbrellas As Art In Japan" — four decades before the language of craft and intentional living entered the mainstream conversation.
Louis Vuitton City Guide — Kyoto
Named as one of the
essential addresses in Kyoto.
The Louis Vuitton City Guide to Kyoto listed Tsujikura not as a curiosity or a tourist destination, but as one of the places that defines what Kyoto makes. A guide that exists to identify what is genuinely worth seeking out, in a city with no shortage of things that present themselves as worthy.
Cross Hotel Kyoto
In the lobby.
As the space itself.
The Cross Hotel Kyoto installed Tsujikura wagasa not as decoration, but as a structural element of the lobby — objects chosen because of what they do to a space, not simply what they look like within it. This is the wagasa functioning as it always has: not as ornament, but as presence.
