Let's take a look at the best recent Japanese drama on Netflix!

Inspired by Kyoto, create origami camellias following our easy how-to-guide.

Following up a family story I discover our fascinating medieval Neville ancestry!

A winter travel journal to beautiful Kyoto.

We had a wonderful gathering at our online JanuaryInJapan Book Club this January. Our topic was the fascinating short novel by Satoshi...

Discover Kyoto's Jidai Matsuri with our stunning illustrated guide by professional photographer Paul Moss.

Discover what it's like staying in a temple in Kyoto!

Walk with Cathy around beautiful Rikugien garden in Tokyo, in the footsteps of the samurai and his concubine who once lived there.

This January, join us for our cosiest JanuaryInJapan Book Club yet!

Discover our bespoke furoshiki gift-wrapping service, where we will creatively wrap your luxury products with our skilled techniques.

This month let's take a look at the writing of Lafcadio Hearn in his essay collection of 1895, called Kokoro.

What could be more beautiful than furoshiki fabric gift-wrapping your presents to your loved ones. We have so many beautiful designs for...

What could be more magical than Christmas stars! These easy-to-make origami stars look beautiful on the Christmas tree, or as gift...

Our new Zusetsu Geisha Dance Tea Towel design I visited Kyoto in the spring, and the lanes of Gion and the adjacent temple grounds at...

…and that ideal vision was that Kyoto would once again be  a beautiful wooden city… Steve Beimel of JapanCraft21 in Kyoto is an...

I first discovered stories about the thunder god, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, when I visited the Gion Matsuri last summer. Susanoo-no-Mikoto is...

Have you ever wondered about Japanese Shinto shrines? What is the meaning behind those zigzag shapes of paper that hang from a rope, and...

Do not think yourself The vanishing dew. Think instead Of the long-blooming Chrysanthemum flower. The Heian Court calendar was peppered...

Turn to me Mukai-kun Sincere guy Satoru Mukai (played by Akaso Eiji) had a perplexing break-up ten years ago: one which he never quite...

Our founder Cathy is a professional children's book illustrator, currently illustrating a big series of colouring books for Little Tiger...