ブシ　 Company Profile

Information collection and analysis of lacquer, product development and sales that utilize lacquer and add modernity, restoration of lacquer products and development of new materials, various interior coordination.

In 1975, I received a request from Rosenthal in Germany to investigate traditional Japanese materials, and I selected lacquer, establishing the KISO Research Institute as its base. Together with eight members and professors from art universities, I began research on lacquer, and with design collaboration from Max Ticker, Burkhard Hocktheil, and Tetsuo Nakagawa, we developed modern furniture and URUSHI GOODS, which were manufactured and exported. Subsequently, to focus on domestic sales of URUSHI GOODS, the KISO Research Institute was transformed into Bushi Co., Ltd. In 1981, I opened a directly managed store in Roppongi Axis, unveiling URUSHI GOODS designed by Motomi Kawakami, capturing public attention. Since then, I have continued to challenge various traditional Japanese materials beyond lacquer up to the present day.