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1. Making Furniture, Crafts, and Wood Sculptures
Our furniture work includes tables, chairs, wall shelves, and benches, while our craft work has featured wooden spoons, nail files, bonito tuna flake shavers, and other items. Everything we make is based on ideas that come to us in the course of our calm peaceful lifestyle. Our wood Sculptures express a uniquely charming eccentricity through the shapes of houses, with the theme of “Paradise of Follies.”
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2. Exhibitions in Japan and Overseas
We have shown our works at private exhibitions, both in Japan and overseas. In 2018, we held an exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden, and we have another exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark planned for 2022.
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3. Showing Our Skills, Tools, and Environment
We have produced 21 videos on Japanese woodworking tools, particularly the kanna plane, and made them available on the internet. We also accept visitors from overseas, showing our tools and our workshop environment to them.
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4. Instruction
We provide training sessions and individual instruction on the use and maintenance of Japanese hand tools, intended for specialists from Japan or abroad.
What We Prize Most
1. Maintenance of Tools
Half of our work is maintaining our tools, particularly sharpening the blades we use.
2. Ideas
Look around you with a sense of enthusiasm, and you’ll find inspiration everywhere.
3. Workshop Environment
We are but a single part of our work environment. When we want to use something, we must move to where it is.
Permanent Exhibition and Books
Visit Our Workshop Gallery
We keep some of our work on permanent display at the By Hand Wood Workshop gallery.
If you’d like to come see it, please use the contact form to let us know.
BOOKS
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Paradise of Follies: Kenji Komatsu Works
“Essays on form.” Thirty woodworks and drawings created by Kenji Komatsu.
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Journey of Drawing: Kenji Komatsu Drawing Works
This book takes readers on a journey, as they experience the steps of creation. Explore sketches and drawings that served as the basis for Komatsu’s unique works, for an unusually candid look at the creative process.
Workshop Overview
- Workshop Name:
- By Hand Wood Workshop
- Address:
- 375-1 Fuchu-machi Sotowano, Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture 939-2632
- Established:
- April 2017
- Representative:
- Kenji Komatsu
- Types of Work:
- Production of furniture, craft items, and wood carvings; organization of exhibitions, both domestically and internationally; and publicly sharing, demonstrating, and providing instruction on techniques
Access
The Town We Live In
The prefecture of Toyama enjoys both Toyama Bay along the coast, and the spectacular 3,000-meter-tall peaks of the Tateyama Mountain Range.
Our workshop likewise enjoys the beauty of nature: By Hand Wood Workshop is located in a hilly area surrounded by lush forests, rural landscapes, and rivers.
