Sushi Chef · Class
Sushi Making Japan
Shape your own nigiri and rolls beside an English speaking sushi chef in Asakusa, then sit down and eat everything you made.
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo.
19 real places across 18 crafts. Classes, workshops and people worth meeting.
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Potter · Class
Uzumako Ceramic Art School
Learn the wheel and hand building from Japanese potters in a friendly Minato studio where beginners are always welcome.
Tokyo, Japan
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Bladesmith · Workshop
TOKI
Step into master bladesmith Shigetoshi Sato's Hachioji workroom to watch and try the forging craft behind Japanese blades.
Tokyo, Japan
Explore the craftPhotographs show the crafts. They are not portraits of the listed studios.
Every place in Tokyo
Sushi Chef
Human AuthorshipA lifetime learning to cut a fish, so that ten seconds on your tongue are perfect.
Potter
Human AuthorshipA wheel, some mud, a teacher's hands over yours. Two hours where your phone doesn't matter.
Bladesmith
Human AuthorshipFire, hammer, and a person who can feel, through the steel, the moment it is ready.
Weaver
Human AuthorshipThread by thread, on a loom older than the machine age, a person makes cloth mean something.
Calligrapher
Human AuthorshipIn a world of fonts, a person still moves a wet nib and means every stroke.
Carpenter
Body & PresenceThe corners you trust with your home.
Sommelier
Among HumansThe person who tastes the whole cellar so your table does not have to guess.
Pastry Chef
Body & PresencePrecision you can taste. A gram off and the whole thing falls.
Line Cook
Human AuthorshipA hot kitchen, twelve tickets, a plate that tastes like a place.
Florist
Human AuthorshipSomeone who translates what you couldn't say into stems and color.
Tailor
Human AuthorshipCloth cut to the person, not the person to the cloth.
Glassblower
Human AuthorshipA breath, held inside molten glass, kept forever.
Fisherman
Body & PresenceOut on the water before the light, a fisherman reads the sea by feel and brings home the day's catch.
Stage Actor
Among HumansNo retakes, no edits. Just a person, a room, and tonight only.
Woodcarver
Human AuthorshipA block of wood, a sharp tool, and a person patient enough to find the shape inside it.
Printmaker
Human AuthorshipInk, a screen, a steady pull, and one image becomes a hundred, each pressed by hand.
- Apprenticeship
Advanced Skills Training Program for future artisans
The Adachi Foundation For the Preservation of Woodcut Printing · One or two trainees a year, with a summer internship first
- Visit
The showroom, and the printing process shown
The Adachi Foundation For the Preservation of Woodcut Printing · Weekdays and Saturday mornings
Engraver
Human AuthorshipAn engraver cuts a line into metal by hand, and the light never forgets it.
Papermaker
Human AuthorshipA papermaker lifts a screen from the vat and pulls a fresh sheet out of water and fiber.
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