Who is Yuko Tsuchida?
After giving up his samurai career, he became a middleman for Nishijin textiles under the name "Echigoya Hanbei." He also trained in making bags, and was taken in by the sixth head of the Omotesenke school, Kakukakusai, to begin sewing tea caddy covers.
From the second generation onwards, the head of the family was commonly known as Hanshiro, and when he retired and shaved his head he took the name Tomoko. Up until the fifth generation, the family was a bag maker specialising in making shifuku (seals), and the 12th generation (who took the name in 1965) currently makes shifuku (seals) for tea caddies, hakama (cloths), and kakuobi (belts) for tea ceremony utensils.
One of the Senke Ten Craftsmen
What are the Ten Craftsmen of the Senke?
It is an honorific title for ten craftsmen, including lacquerers and joiners, who are involved in the tea ceremony and frequent the three Sen schools (Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Mushakojisenke). It was reorganized into the current ten craftsmen during the Meiji period. (Some say that it was named by Mitsukoshi department store during the Taisho period.) After giving up his samurai career, he became a Nishijin textile broker under the name "Echigoya Hanbei." He also trained in making bags, and was taken under the wing of the sixth head of the Omotesenke school, Kakukakusai, who began sewing tea caddy covers.
●Our store mainly sells "Hakusha scissors, sukiya bags, old hakusha, and dehakusha."●
Recommended products are the kohakusha and dehakusha with the pattern of the zodiac animal, the boar.
Click here for old cloth
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Click here for the debukusa
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・Rakuten store
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Other works by Tomoko Tsuchida can be found here
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・Main store
・Rakuten store
・Yahoo store
