Study under fine furniture maker Tak Yoshino and learn to properly set up Japanese hand tools, make traditional Sashimono joinery and experience fine woodworking.

Class outline:

• Week 1: Introduction to tools, purchasing tools, setting up and sharpening, practising to hand plane.

• Week 2: Sashimono and furniture joinery practice.

• Week 3: Using concave hand planes and working with curvatures.

• Week 4: Craft what you like while receiving guidance and advice (free use of pine wood. Additional costs may apply for other species).

• Tuition fee is ¥650,000-

The tuition fee does NOT include tools.

The tuition fee does NOT include accommodation or meals.

• Those who take the 4-weeks course can participate in the artist-in-residence program for 14 days for ¥150,000- (including accommodation and studio use). 

• Lessons hour: 9:00-16:00 Monday to Friday

• Studio open hour: 7:00-23:00 everyday(sometimes it is not available due to events.)

• Please be aware that if you do not have insurance, you will not be allowed to participate.

• "Wood Culture Talk Night": It is greatly appreciated if participants can have a presentation about wood culture in your hometown or country on the third Friday night, so that world wood culture can be shared among everyone in the studio and on Youtube. Speakers can freely decide the length of their presentation. 

Amazing to be able to experience woodworking in such a special place on the planet.
I have learned a lot when following the 4 week course. Additionally, the collection of international chairs is breathtaking, worthy of a high end museum.

 - Bart S.

4週間集中コース

木工家 吉野崇裕のもとでみっちり学ぶ、日本の手工具の正しい使い方、伝統的な組手の作り方講座

• 講座概要

・1週目 道具の紹介、道具の購入、道具の仕込み、研ぎ、手鉋の練習

・2週目 指物や家具に用いられる組手の練習

・3週目 曲面鉋の仕込みと曲面の加工

・4週目 指導・アドバイスを受けながら、好きなものを作る

受講料は65万円です。（宿泊費、食費、道具代は含みません）

講座時間：平日9:00-16:00
工房利用可能時間：毎日7:00~23:00

４週間コースを受講された方は、アーティスト・イン・レジデンス・プログラムに
14日間15万円で参加できます。（宿泊費、スタジオ使用料込み）

『木の文化交流会』について
滞在3週目の金曜日の夜、参加者の方には、自分の出身地や国の木の文化についてのプレゼンテーションをお願いしています。プレゼンテーションの長さは自由で、トピックも木に関することでしたら自由です。ご予約いただいた方には参考例を共有させていただきます。発表の様子を撮影して当NPOの活動記録として使用させていただくとともに、世界中にいる木の文化を学びたい方に共有させていただきたく思います。

This advanced course provides detailed instruction in chair making that incorporates the ergonomics that Takahiro Yoshino, a woodworker with more than 40 years of experience, has studied.

You will learn the secret wisdom and techniques to create a perfect chair for your body with sophisticated seat carving technique using Japanese hand planes.

Class outline:

• Week 1: Preparation of tools (chisels and tiny planes), body measurements, explanation of chair-making methods, making tenons and mortises.

• Week 2: Rough milling for the seat and the roof, practice joineries of the crest rail

• Week 3: Carving the seat, lathing the legs in between 

• Week 4: Assembly, finishing, Urushi lacquer(if time permits)

• Tuition fee is ¥800,000-

The tuition fee does NOT include tools.

The tuition fee does NOT include accommodation or meals.

Saturdays and Sundays are off days but the studio space can be used.

• Lessons hour: 9:00-16:00 Monday to Friday

• Studio open hour: 7:00-23:00 everyday(sometimes it is not available due to events.)

• We strongly recommended that you purchase some type of travel insurance.

• Those who take the 4-weeks course can participate in the artist-in-residence program for 14 days for ¥150,000- (including accommodation and studio use). 

• "Wood Culture Talk Night": It is greatly appreciated if participants can have a presentation about wood culture in your hometown or country on the third Friday night, so that world wood culture can be shared among everyone in the studio and on Youtube. Speakers can freely decide the length of their presentation. 

Qualification:

Have basic skills of setting up their own Japanese tools and can do the mortise and tenon work by hand with precision, or someone who took our 4 week intensive course before.

Amazing to be able to experience woodworking in such a special place on the planet.
I have learned a lot when following the 4 week course. Additionally, the collection of international chairs is breathtaking, worthy of a high end museum.

 - Bart S.