Overview
Lacquered wooden surfboards that give form to the idea of “manufacturing that starts with forestation. The company renovated a 100-year-old farm shed in Keihoku Town and established a wood surfboard factory, and while making effective use of local cedar and other materials found in Kumahagi, produced a lacquered wooden surfboard called “siita”.
The boards shaved by Rodrigo Matsuda, a world-renowned wood board shaper who is fascinated by wood, are both beautiful to the eye and functional, with a unique lacquer feel, unique luster, and texture. In addition, the boards have water repellency and antibacterial properties, creating a new type of surfboard that uses natural materials and has less impact on the environment.
Making things for the sea in the mountains.
Siita, together with her friends who share her vision, hopes to travel across the seas of Japan and around the world to encounter lacquer, and hopes that this will be an opportunity for people to reconsider the environment.
Artist
Lacquer artistTakuya Tsutsumi
Asakichi Tsutsumi Lacquer Shop / Perspective Co-Chairman
The fourth generation of a lacquer shop established in 1909. He is the fourth generation of a lacquer shop established in 1909, and he produces various types of lacquer to meet the needs of the field, such as restoration of cultural assets and traditional crafts, by making full use of traditional methods inherited from the collected lacquer sap and newly developed high-dispersion purification methods. He is promoting activities to expand the possibilities of lacquer beyond traditional boundaries and the circle of planting, such as “SURF x Urushi”, “BMX x Urushi”, and “SKATE x Urushi”.