Usurahi | Hand-crafted Rakusui Lace

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, Usurahi, is made with hand-crafted Rakusui washi — a technique in which water droplets are showered onto wet paper pulp, leaving behind a delicate, lace-like pattern of micro-perforations. Held to a window, light filters through each opening, casting a quiet shadow into the room — the stillness of ice, or light through winter branches.

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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