Phone +81 909 763 0909
E-mail yk8@shunmeyukino.com
Address 15-49 Nakataikoyama, Imizu-city, Toyama-pref.,
Japan
Phone +81 909 763 0909
E-mail yk8@shunmeyukino.com
Address 15-49 Nakataikoyama, Imizu-city, Toyama-pref.,
Japan

News

2021.03.03
Category:News

January 31st, 2024:

We sincerely appreciate your understanding of the post-disaster situation, and we express our heartfelt gratitude to all those who have made reservations or purchases amidst the challenges facing this industry.

Through our interactions with skilled craftsmen so far, we feel that the history of challenges and the sense of fulfillment manifest in the results of their efforts. When customers express their desire for our shikki and mention that it might contribute to the preservation of these craftsmen’s skills, it fills us with profound gratitude. We sincerely appreciate your good intentions which support us both practically and emotionally.

January 28th, 2024:

Our online store, Shunme International, for imported food products is now open, featuring a selection of five tea blends from Tea World Shop in Como, Italy, to start with.
Shunme International Online Store

Teas From Como, Italy

October 14th, 2023:

We are going to release Fukiurushi Series. Please check and see the images in each section on Product Page.
https://youtu.be/gQ8i6FNJ5k8 *This movie will become available on Nov. 16, 2023.

October 14th, 2023:

We are extremely pleased and happy to announce here that we will join the ‘Terry Sasaki with Creators Exhibition 2023.’
We will wait for you there.

Information
Event Dates: Nov. 17th – 19th
Time: 11:00 ~ 19:00  (10:00 ~ 18:00 for19th) 
Venue:
1F Gin no Suzu
1F Dai-2 Suzumaru Bldg.
3-8-1 Nishi-Shinbashi, Minatoku, Tokyo

The leaflet is here.


September 18th, 2023:

Our temporary digital brochure is available here.



August 1st, 2023:

Yukino Shunme attended La Notte Premio A’ on July 19th. It was such a nice trip that several short movies will be made and uploaded to YouTube near future. For now, please let us put here the short image videos of Tsuzumi. One is for starting Instagram, and another for memory of Como.

YouTube for instagram 1

Tsuzumi in Como, Italy


May 5th, 2023:

We are extremely happy to inform you that our Tsuzumi has won the Silver Award A’Design Competition. 

We got the official announcement from the Vice President of A’Design Competition this morning. Gala Night will be held in July. Yukino Shunme would like to go there if the situation allows.

Here is the link to our page on the website of A’Design Competition.
https://competition.adesignaward.com/gooddesign.php?ID=145709

February 3rd, 2023:

We are glad to inform you that Miyabi Black Tame Uchidenokozuchi and Ohashi x Ko-Tsuzumi Uchidenokozuchi have been sent to the Sasaki Art Gallery in the Pan Pacific Hotel. We are excited to see our items displayed at such a wonderful gallery and great location. While next lots of several items are now in the manufacturing process, those two are the only items we could send this time. We hope several more items will also be put on display at the Gallery in the near future.

December 3rd, 2022:

We are pleased to inform you that our new item, Ninja Never Fights – Ofukuwake, has been selected for the exhibition at Japan Traditional Craft Aoyama Square (from January 4th to 12th) after displayed at the National Art Center, Tokyo (from December 2nd to December 12th), for the Japan’s Traditional Craft Competition 2022. Our items have been selected for three consecutive years!
The title of the work is Ninja Never Fights – Ofukuwake. Taking advantage of properties of urushi, this plate is made for you to enjoy makie of Ninja sitting in meditation and wood grain after years because time makes the color of the top coat urushi more transparent. 
You can not see now, but the Ninja is placed at the center front near the cheek.

Ninja Never Fights – Ofukuwake

November 16th, 2022:

We shot a video of the turner working on one of our items, Ofukuwake. The video will be edited and uploaded to this site as well as posted on YouTube channel, Facebook page, and other platforms.

November 13th, 2022:

We are now preparing for design competition n Europe. Our items have finally got a professional photographer who specializes in product photography.

November 1st, 2022:

Part of our items are now registered as thank-you gifts of Furusato Nozei(ふるさと納税) from Imizu-City, Toyama-pref., and added to the list. We hope our items could get a lot of visibility nationwide in Japan before becoming well known in Europe as well as in North America, where we are just starting to actually try to find a foothold.
If you would like to check our items on the Furusato Nozei sites, please just enter 旬馬 to search for them in Japanese or Authentic Japan Shunme in English.

April 3rd, 2022:

We are pleased to inform you that our brand store has just opened at Amazon.com. Some of our products except Tsuzumi will be dealt there. We would appreciate it if you could click the link below to visit our store.

Thank you.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/6F43E572-6AFC-4B73-BD62-763F96DA0F54?ingress=3

December 31st, 2021:

We are happy to announce that, following the last year’s winning work, Ko-Tsuzumi-V, Tsuzumi has been selected this year for the exhibition at Japan Traditional Craft Aoyama Square after displayed at the National Art Center, Tokyo, for the Japan’s Traditional Craft Competition 2021.  It had been on display at National Art Center from November 26th to December 6th, and is now exhibited at Aoyama Square to 6th of this month.  We are going to release some of our products soon at Japan Store@Amazon.com. Though Tsuzumi can only be purchased through our website and will not be released @Amazon.com for the time being, we hope you will also visit our store at Japan Store and enjoy shopping.

September 10th, 2021:

According to the report released by Minowa Shikko Co., Ltd. in Fukui-pref., Japan, on August 24th, antiviral effect of urushi against novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been verified by the test conducted at General Incorporated Association Japan Textile Products Quality and Technology Center.

The translation is published on this site with permission of Minowa Shikko Co., Ltd. 

Please click here for details.

If the above link does not work, please click here for page 1 and also here for page 2.

January 1st, 2021:

Ko-Tsuzumi-V has been selected for the exhibition at Japan Traditional Craft Aoyama Square after displayed at the National Art Center, Tokyo, for the Japan’s Traditional Craft Competition 2020.  It had been on display at National Art Center from November 28th to December 7th, and is now exhibited at Aoyama Square to 7th of this month.  This is our first try and has become a great encouragement for us to go forward with our totally new brand for which we take an uncompromising approach to design, quality, and the traditional production process.