Samurai Japan

Welcome to SAMURAI JAPAN

All products we recommend here in our site are the typical Japanese traditional crafts and introduce you not only personal use of art but also for a material of decoration or building design with your original idea to be utilized for hotels, mansions, apartments, public facilities, schools, stations, government facilities and etc.

We basically accept your order by custom order based on your idea for each usage. Please feel free to ask us for the products with any your idea or proposal to use.

What　is "DOU"

DOU has the original meaning in philosophy and personal/cultural value to search the truth in different training or expression of arts, crafts artistic skills in Japan.

Usually there are 2 different meaning of DOU in Japan which is BUDOU and GEIDOU. BUDOU is consisted of KENDO, JU-DOU, KYU-DOU and KARATE-DOU, and GEIDOU is consisted of SADOU (Way of tea ceremony), KADOU (Flower arrangement), SHODOU (Calligraphy) and KOUDOU (incense-burning).

The top of DOU is SADOU (the way of Tea ceremony)

In Japanese tea ceremony, SADOU is a multifaceted traditional activity strongly influenced by ZEN Buddhism, in which powdered green tea, or matcha, is ceremonially prepared and served to others.

A tea practitioner should strive to be knowledgeable if not expert in the wide range of disciplines and traditional arts that are integral to CHANOYU. For example, the production and types of tea, kimono, calligraphy, flower arranging, ceramics and incense. Because of this, the study of the tea ceremony is virtually endless. Even to participate as a guest in a formal tea ceremony requires knowledge of the prescribed gestures and phrases, the proper way to take tea and sweets, and general deportment in the tea room.

So SADOU requires years of training and practice, hence the searching the truth of SADOU is endless in long history Japan.

Introduction of SAMURAI JAPAN

SAMURAI JAPAN introduces the artistic products which are mostly hand-made with the cultivating the craftsman’s skills adopted from Japanese ancients to all people in the world. Also we would like to introduce the craftsman who have high-level skills for the artistic products, and are very few people exists even in Japan like a living national treasure.

With long history in Japan, we have a contemplation called "DOU". This way of thinking is a searching the truth and developing the skills with devotion to his works. Mainly the typical DOU are "SADOU", "KADOU", "KOUDOU" and "SHODOU".

We are very happy to share the time with all of you now and could introduce the original culture of Japan and thoughtful, delicacy sensibility for the products particular to Japanese artists in this site.

SAMURAI JAPAN will deepen the communication with the fine craftsman in Japan and sincerely hopes that Japanese culture will be approved in the world.

By Y. Nakamura (Editor of Samurai Japan)

• Yasaburo Tanimura
• Kenji Mihara
• Kakusho Kametani
• Tadao Ibuki
• Keizuka
• Haruo Yanase
• Kazuhiro Tamura,Mizuo Ishida