Hakugen | Limited Edition Tsukiyakko (Monochrome Moon)

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, Hakugen, revives the Tsukiyakko pattern — a crescent moon motif favoured by Japanese aesthetes for centuries — rendered in jet-black ink on Kurotani Unryu washi.
Haku: the pure light of the paper. Gen: the depth of the black.
Held to a window, the two hold their contrast absolutely. The room takes on the quiet of a clear night.

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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