2024/05/20

2024-2025 Collection “BONSAI”


新作 “BONSAI” を発表します。日本各地の産地を訪ね、山採りをルーツとする盆栽と、その年輪が語る盆栽の記憶に迫りました。

盆栽は永い年月をかけて育まれる小さな大木。自然の情景を凝縮した盆栽の文化には、自然に畏敬の念を抱く日本人の自然観が現れています。

日本各地の産地を訪ねるうちに、盆栽には「山」と「畑」があることを知りました。真っ直ぐに伸びる幹に針金をかけて樹形が作られる「畑」の盆栽に対して、険しい岩山に自生していた「山」の盆栽は、厳しい環境に呼応して自ら描きだした樹形をたたえています。雪の重みで押しつぶされた幹が、雪解けとともに光を求めて天へと波打つ。絶え間なく吹き付ける風に倣って枝をたなびかせる。人間の作為の及ばない自然の造形美です。

けれども、生命には限りがある。
新作 “BONSAI” では、故あって枯木となった盆栽に新たな命を吹き込みました。

初作では、一位、杜松、蝦夷松の3樹種を端正な玉に仕立てました。丸く削りだすことで、内から現れる全ての年輪を途切れなく辿り、盆栽の生命をあまねく映しだそうと試みました。

自然が描きだす年輪は正直です。私たちがその模様に美を感じるのは、その正直さゆえでしょう。身に着け耳を澄ませると、樹齢数百年の時を越えて静かな呼吸が聞こえてきます。

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Introducing, “BONSAI”. We’ve journeyed across Japan in pursuit of bonsai, originally wild trees in the forest, and delved into the tree’s memories told by its rings.

Bonsai are small giant trees grown over many moons. Bonsai, as a culture, is a condensed landscape that is a reflection of the Japanese people’s reverence for the natural world.

Through our visits to different sites, we came to learn of “mountain bonsai” and “garden bonsai.” “Garden bonsai” are those whose trunks were originally straight but were reshaped by wire. Meanwhile, the shape of “mountain bonsai” that grow wild on steep rocky mountains are created as the trees adapt to their harsh environment. A trunk that is weighed down by heavy snow will rise like waves toward the sky in pursuit of light once the snow melts away. Their branches sway in the relentless wind. These shapes created by nature are those that could never be reproduced by the hands of man.

However, life is finite.
Our “BONSAI” breathes new life into those that have withered for different reasons.

The first series features three types of tree;, Japanese yew, Temple juniper, and Ezo spruce carved into a graceful ball shape. We celebrate the whole life of the bonsai by shaving the trunk into a ball, and in the process, tracing the rings that appear from within.

The rings created by nature do not lie. It is this truthfulness that gives beauty to its patterns. Wear it and listen carefully and you will hear the quiet breathing of the trees that have lasted for centuries.

“BONSAI” Necklace





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Artwork & Design : Miori Takeda
Movie : Rinko Tsukamoto

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