{"id":3863,"date":"2021-07-20T18:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phoenixi.co.jp\/?post_type=dt_team&#038;p=3863"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:40:50","slug":"takuya-tsutsumi","status":"publish","type":"dt_team","link":"https:\/\/www.phoenixi.co.jp\/en\/person\/takuya-tsutsumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Takuya Tsutsumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3865&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_outline&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner]<div class=\"dt-fancy-separator title-left h3-size style-double title-color\" style=\"width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dt-fancy-title\"><span class=\"separator-holder separator-left\"><\/span>Takuya Tsutsumi<span class=\"separator-holder separator-right\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Tsutsumi Asakichi Urushi Co.Ltd Managing Director[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Takuya works as the fourth generation of Urushi refiners at Tsutsumi Asakichi Urushi Store, which has refined Urushi since the Meiji Era (1868-1912).<\/p>\n<p>Urushi refiners\u2019 work lies between that of the urushikaki and the nushi\/nurishi. Urushikaki are tradesmen who cultivate and gather Urushi, which is tree sap. Nushi\/nurishi are craftsmen who use the Urushi to make lacquered products such as bowls and Buddhist ritual implements. As an Urushi refiner experiencing the drop-off in domestic Urushi production, Takuya decided to create \u201curushi-no-ippo,\u201d (lit. Our first steps in Urushi) an initiative to get the next generation to take an interest in and use Urushi items.<\/p>\n<p>Through innovative collaborations with other creators such as in \u201cUrushi\u00d7Alaia,\u201d \u201cUrushi x BMX,\u201d and \u201cUrushi x skateboard,\u201d Takuya has created new opportunities for people to connect with Urushi.In hopes of passing on Urushi, a sustainable natural ingredient that has been used in Japan for more than ten thousand years, to the coming generations, Takuya co-founded Perspective in June of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Craft21 Grand Prize Ronnie Award in July of 2021.<br \/>\nSpecial Research Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Traditional Industries, Kyoto Seika University.<br \/>\nNGO Surfrider Foundation Japan Ambassador.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3865&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_outline&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Tsutsumi Asakichi Urushi Co.Ltd Managing Director[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Takuya works as the fourth generation of Urushi refiners at Tsutsumi Asakichi Urushi Store, which has refined Urushi since the Meiji Era (1868-1912). 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