Producers introduce
1 Location - Shimane Prefecture
2 Name - Oka Eiji's
3 store name - Okaya tree and horticultural
4 profession - Woodworker
5 Recommended Items - Diospyros General
6 Date of Birth - 1953/10/24
7 constellation - Scorpio
8 motto - Gratitude thanks
My sticking to
What are the points that are careful at the time of manufacture?
---Carefully selected wood of good quality domestic, we are tough to finish by gently dry.
Persimmon is time to kill is very important. March to October to activities actively, especially in May, June is when the stem is sucked up the most moisture and nutrients. Or immediately with insects is the persimmon that was struck in this time, I will or mouth. Logging from November to February, the leaves nor fall real, is best when the wood is dormant. Really good material, I'm a material that is cut at a time when it limited. If you're overseas material, and do not know what time it is cut, it is not possible to control here. It is I'm worried about. So, out, all you have to use the wood of the domestic. Look at their eyes, it is domestic natural wood was carefully selected "safe and secure". In addition, I will take every care to dry. Lumber plate was allowed to dry naturally over the time that has finished, craftsmen finish carefully one by one. In the workshop, you can make a consistent production from timber management Drying and design, woodworking, to painting. Grew up wood in Japan, has a resistance to Japanese culture. Beyond the generation, I want to continue to the building shall be long cherished.
Processing of diospyros is I think difficult likely.
---It is a tree of cry creators. There is a place you can not read. There it is interesting.
Diospyros are a very delicate material. Difference of each solid is large, it is seen in the one first one, first touch, followed by the work of making sure. In addition, as a feature of diospyros, for different black part and white part in the contraction rate, it will quite crack in the middle of the dry. Fewer, but is expensive diospyros, all diospyros you buy does not come out perfect A pattern. Even has come out black A pattern in the visible part, you can not use as material When I cut emergency, the best A pattern such as insects are eaten, It is a tree of cry creators. I use anyway care to dry after lumber. It is a difficult wood handling, but when processing is successful, it becomes enough to smooth wood surface polish if polish, you will be beautiful luster. There I just interesting.
So, it is not possible to mass production. Diospyros of materials and how to make, and mass-produced goods are fundamentally different. Ten if ten, nature is different. Method also changes. I right man in the right place of the materials selection is the most important. To the diospyros in product, a common Mokko-ya's also used tools you do not use.
What is diospyros of charm that never ceased to attract the Oka?
---From one of the raw wood that has lived 200-300 years, it is always impressive when the grain appears.
Diospyros is, stirs the imagination of people, I think beautiful material that very dream. Stripes of diospyros, you can have black and white clearly, there is also freshness. Such as pulling in a corner, and Leveraging the location of the diospyros of facial expression, as soon as the arm of the creator. Even if it is difficult to make a product of diospyros, I want to tell its appeal, and I will have it is that I would like you to enjoy.

Producer's profile
Founded than '60 extra! Consistent production from raw wood to finish
Okaya Ki-gei san, Kojiki and Izumo Fudoki of place names and shrines was born in Hikawa field to concentrate (Izumo Hikawa). Within this environment, Oka-san "purchase of raw wood, management, production, finishing" done consistently until, in the center a rarity of precious wood "diospyros", chestnut-Zelkova (Zelkova), oak original by (if applicable) I am making the craft work.
"I'm a I in the third generation, like the diospyros from the die of the grandfather, I started in earnest, it is from their own generation. In addition predecessor in the connoisseur, to see the work of master craftsmen that have been polished in the history If you have that, even on your own, you can around the come. master craftsman of the house out is you do want to create these things, while collecting and actually see things, and I studied the likely woodworking technology buried. one by one this, I was from the study of material production. since then 35 to 40 years roughly, we have this work "(Oka)
The challenge in the land of Izumo, Manufacturing of a new era
Diospyros has a long history in Japan, the mid-eighth century, by the woodworking technology that was brought from the continent by the time legacy of Buddhism, of Zushi and horses using the already diospyros the time you can Shosoin saddle, various box masterpieces such as had been made.
Diospyros craft of Matsue, will begin by the time the seven feudal lord Matsudaira Harusato (humaikou) was welcomed as a lord in 1767. Due to the promotion of agriculture and special products promote bankrupt Matsue clan of finance, you can rebuild in ten years or so. humaikou, it made a then humai-ryu, collect masterpieces, tea utensils, confectionery, cooking, and teaching the craftsman up to the building was to explore the ideal of style. Civil engineering and construction wood carving and master craftsman Kobayashi Jozei was active in woodworking is used heavily by Fumaikou, I made a lot of tea utensils of Oyakekonomi. Fumaikou will have especially reportedly was made in favor of diospyros.
Diospyros material that there is jealousy in handling rare is, it takes a polite dry long, many joiner and potter's wheel nurses to make the tea utensils have been told the trick over two hundred years.
"In the modern society of the mechanism also change, but also various things that are required, and taking advantage of the diospyros craft techniques and aesthetics that have been handed down in the land of Izumo, and we want to continue this work through the Manufacturing of a new era" (Oka)
His motto is "gratitude gratitude"
When the Oka is a special event of diospyros, is so also are customers that He will show anywhere in the country appearance.
It is ne. Happy is said to me I'd like the "early. Those battle with cancer, enjoying diospyros at bedside, also Irasshaimasu that are encouraging. It is seeking the only good tree it is come. the thing is, will also be in my encouragement. "(Oka)
Oka's motto is, "gratitude gratitude". Well, it is so go to pray to Konpira Mr. and shrines located in the neighborhood.
"In doing this, in response to everyone of support, you can work gently, you and I think it irreplaceable. People of grace, and to thank the grace of the forest. Of the Japan of the country, about 70% it is a forest. If you look at the whole earth, to think that forest there is only 1 percent, Japan has a rich Land of the green. However, beneficiaries rate of Japan of wood just under 30%. Japan of wood effective utilization by no forest There is also losing its original form. the plant trees, grow, harvested, properly use, and to regain the circulation of making forest of wells, and established a forest of environment, prevention of floods and landslides to you will also. be to use domestic wood, leads also to be a healthy forest. myth was born, on this earth, has flow Tayu Ya kana time. we, Izumo tradition as a craft, technology, and will continue to inherit the culture. it is thanks to the blessings of nature, with the aim of making loved ones long beyond the generation, I want to continue to work "(Oka)
Even today, in the land of Oka Izumo, with the aim of making things that enrich the daily lives, you have probably been making diospyros crafts.

Okaya tree and horticultural Biography
1952 Ogaya founded (lumber merchant)
1961 OkaMegumikichi (No. Shofu) is teaching a craftsman, to begin the production of wood and horticultural goods
Mainly Edo was left to center the Matsue, Meiji, and collecting research the wood craft work of Taisho
Material from 1970 timber management, potter's wheel, sashimono, chestnut products, in a consistent process to lacquer, in order to maintain the goodness of handicrafts, specialized in craft production renamed the "Okaya tree and horticultural"
Oka 1982 Eiji is advocating the creation wood arts, reorganized founded limited company Okaya tree and horticultural
Japan 1986 Craft Exhibition first prize
1987 Shimane Prefecture excellence tradition technicians commendation. (5 people receive the award from the subsequent workshop)
Specified in Shimane Prefecture hometown traditional crafts as "tree and horticultural goods"
Exhibition "craft craft from Shimane tree" at 1988 Tokyo Nihonbashi Craft Center, Japan
Thereafter to continue the new announcement for the annual life proposed by wood crafts (1988-2003)
Solo exhibition in this year and later around, works presented at the exhibition
1989 Japan Craft Exhibition Itami Craft Exhibition Shimane Prefecture excellence tradition technicians commendation
Japan Craft Exhibition Sanin life of crafts Exhibition Award 1995
Nagoya Maruzen Gallery "TakuAya" later than excellence crafts awards every year Hikawa
1996 creative furniture workshop Exhibition (Yonago Takashimaya) thereafter every year other
Reorganized in 1999 Corporation Okaya
2001 "tool exhibition of procedure" planning exhibitors after continuous held
Diospyros writing box is vouchsafe the Sakae presented to His Majesty the Emperor than 2004 Shimane Prefecture
Play mainly errand the chestnut material the 2008 old houses. Chestnut 乃舎 and named, will be a base for creative activities
August 2011 "chestnut 乃舎" announced the brand
2012 Founded in '60 "Izumo diospyros" announced the brand

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