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2024.9.14sat - 10.20 sun

TOYAMA｜KANAZAWA

EVENT

Try Your Hand at Metalworking While Drinking Coffee with Kaikado Owner Yagi Takahiro

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Join Yagi Takahiro for an immersive hands-on workshop in which participants produce a small dish for serving tea sweets. Yagi is the sixth generational head of Kaikado, a historic store specializing in handmade tea caddies. Participants will create an original metalware plate by beating out a copper sheet using hammers, wooden molds and other tools. Once finished, the plates will be used to enjoy sweets with Kaikado brand coffee. Juice is also available and children are welcome to participate (recommended age: third grade and up). Along with their creations, participants will take home memories of crafting a work by hand while savoring the delicate flavors of tea sweets.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Photo: Michael Freeman

Yagi Takahiro

b. 1974 in Kyoto. Yagi is the sixth generational head of Kaikado, a business producing tea caddies in Kyoto for nearly 150 years. While working to master the store’s original techniques of caddy-making, Yagi has shifted their approach from B2B to B2C marketing and is actively expanding into domestic and international markets. In 2012, Yagi launched the Go On project for members of his generation in Kyoto in line to inherit traditional craft businesses, and he actively promotes traditional crafts at home and abroad. His works are in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, and the Designmuseum Danmark. He authored the book Empathy and Business (published by Shodensha, 2023).

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INFORMATION

Garten

Garten is a gallery space and café located halfway up Kenrokuzaka slope. The entrance and interior always feature beautiful botanical arrangements, as the site is operated by Ungei, a company founded in 2015 offering plant rental and lease packages.

Address 1-26 Higashi-Kenrokumachi, Kanazawa
URL http://ungei.jp/garten.html