YOKOYAMA TATAMI

After studying rigorously in school and as an apprentice under multi-generational tatami craftspeople, he became the first in his own family to take on the craft. He learned weaving techniques to make Enza from a female master in Hiroshima.

Yamamoto Katsunosuke Shoten

Wakayama Prefecture is known for making hemp palm tools for the home. Legend says that the first palm seeds were brought to Japan by a monk who traveled to China 1,200 years ago and planted them in a temple in Wakayama. Warm and temperate, the region is the ideal climate for hemp palm to grow naturally.