With wood, the main natural resource of Keihoku, along with sustainable Urushi, everyone can enjoy making crafts with ease. The traditional skills that have been cultivated over countless generations can be passed down to the next. These two coexisting pursuits are the goals of our craftsmanship initiatives. We want to build up the necessary infrastructure so that more people can participate in craftsmanship. We also want to spur innovation in how regional resources are used and in how traditional skills are passed down. A portion of the profits we earn from our products will be used to fund our morizukuri initiatives.
The infrastructure for craftsmanship we are preparing, given the name “Fab Village Keihoku,” was selected to receive the Toyota Foundation’s “Grant for Community Activities in Japan” in October of 2020. This was under the Toyota Foundation’s program titled “Creating Sustainable Communities with Future Leaders: building a problem-solving system.”
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