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Japan Best – Shower Set

Japan Best sources the best native craftspeople specialising in singular traditional techniques to offer products of unrivalled quality. This shower kit comprises two award-winning Makanai body towels woven from soft cotton and washi paper, which are unique to Japanese bathing culture. The two black sugar soaps are sculpted into lucky tai fish by Tamanohada, one of the country’s oldest castile companies.

– Makanai body towels last up to a year and gently exfoliate skin
– Black sugar soaps are made from RSPO vegetable oils and strung on a handy rope
— Read on www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/japan_best/shower-set/1123022

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Japan Best – Gardening Set

Japan Best‘s gardening set honours the creativity and traditional crafting methods utilised in the Banshu region – an area that originally produced handmade samurai swords. Included is a pair of carbon steel pruning scissors fitted with blades that can be continually re-sharpened, as well as a sickle tool with a decorative wooden handle. It comes in a handsome wooden box and has a durable cotton-canvas tote bag for easy portability. Gift it to a green-fingered friend.
— Read on www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/japan_best/gardening-set/1122998

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Bows and Arrows Magazine

Japanese manufacturing is not simply a series of processes that seek to make something merely fit for use, it is rather honest and uncompromising work born from a desire to satisfy the needs of the user, to seek to achieve the best quality and to concentrate single-mindedly on the work at hand. 

There in lies joy and satisfaction for the maker, and reliability for the user. Japan’s traditions have long been nurtured by history and nature, and any attempts to bring them into the present require not only that time-honored techniques be passed on, but also a sense of devotion to one’s craft and the desire for harmony with nature. 

The items featured here in the pages of BOWS & ARROWS are diverse in character, but what they all share is the spirit that lies at the heart of Japanese manufacturing. Japanese manufacturing is able to discover innate beauty even in the production process.