Kurotani Unryu Black | Limited Edition Hime-Wagasa

Not a souvenir. Not decoration.
A room, changed.

Place it by a window. Watch what happens to the light.

Each Hime-wagasa is made entirely by hand in Kyoto by Tsujikura — Japan's oldest wagasa atelier, in continuous practice since the 1690s.
Over one hundred individual steps. Bamboo selected, split, and curved by hand. Washi paper applied one sheet at a time. Silk thread wound between each rib — one knot, one rib, repeated.

This edition is made with Kurotani Unryu washi — a paper woven with long, cloud-like fibres that lie hidden within the black.
Held to the light, they surface: slow, drifting, unmistakable. No two pieces carry the same arrangement. The shadow it casts is entirely its own.

Tsujikura's work has been installed at Cross Hotel Kyoto and featured in Vogue Japan, The New York Times, and Louis Vuitton's City Guide to Kyoto.
The atelier the world's most discerning rooms already know.

This is not a decorative object placed in a room.
It is the reason a room looks the way it does.

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