“Where is your North Star?” he asks me. “Keep your eye on it when you write.” “I am trying to find one through my interviews!” I...
Words to Grow Over Time
A Word from a Late Starter
"Weaving comes down to the weaver,And the weaver is determined by his/her heart." Why? Because... "As long as the firm...
Do the Ordinary Extraordinarily
We praise the extraordinary; what's beyond our mundane everyday. But what we tend to overlook is somewhere in between. Do we all...
Your North Star
“Where is your North Star?” he asks me. “Keep your eye on it when you write.” “I am trying to find one through my interviews!” I say. I was sensing where he was going, and wanted to wriggle out of the gravity of it. “Well, you can always find it in the sky if you...
A Word from a Late Starter
"Weaving comes down to the weaver,And the weaver is determined by his/her heart." Why? Because... "As long as the firm foundation is there, any skills or techniques, no matter how extreme or other-worldly, can be built upon it." He also said, "One's technique or skill...
Do the Ordinary Extraordinarily
in that strive for the extraordinary, do we feel exhausted by the constant look-up, the perpetual not-enough-ness?
Blessed by Nature
Sometimes, a single book can change the course of a life. For Taketsune Kubota, that book was E Kasuri—one of the first holistic study of a distinctive style of ikat textile that features more pictorial, expressive motifs than its geometric counterparts. At the time,...
The Only Way to Be Better, Is to Better Yourself.
It’s something that’s been said many times in the past, common sense, one may say. However, I don’t know any maker who has said the word with such depth and richness.
Good Things Always Spread.
People think I’m Japanese.
Well, I am. But it’s been so long since I had miso soup and rice for a breakfast.
The World Changes the Moment You Say Yes.
I hate to be pushed. I hate to feel small and inadequate. I have to gather my courage to face criticism or even neutral feedback. As a writer, I used to dread opening any emails with feedback: I would visualise “NO”, red lines crossed all over the page, and every...