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Painting a paper lantern
Sumi ink
Kyōgen
A tea gathering

Give Your Clients a Day With Japan’s Masters

Private experiences in Tokyo with master artisans and performing-art families, ready to place inside the Japan trips you plan for your clients.

Half a day to a full dayPrivate, for your clients aloneTokyo
A master painting a paper lantern by hand
What We Offer Your Clients

A day built around one tradition

We do not offer a single class. At the centre of each day is one tradition, and around it the crafts and arts that give it its shape, each with the master who carries it on. Your clients move from one to the next over half a day or a full day, at the masters’ own workshops, studios and stages.

Every day is private and planned to fit around the journey you have already arranged.

We know each master personally

Every experience is shaped together with the master who leads it, in a relationship we have built and keep ourselves.

Support on the day, if your clients would like it

Where it helps, we can arrange for a Bespoke Discovery host who understands the craft to accompany your clients and help with the language.

Stories you can share ahead of the trip

Every experience on this page comes with the master’s in-depth interview and short documentary series, so your clients arrive knowing whom they will meet.

Experiences You Can Add

A growing circle of Tokyo’s masters

We work with nearly thirty master artisans and performing-art families, and new masters join regularly. These are the experiences we build their days from today.

15 experiences
A short-tipped brush loaded in a bowl of dark ink New Arrival Witness It Live — Yose-Moji Calligraphy

Yose-Moji: The Brush Lettering of Rakugo Theatres in Tokyo

Tokyo About 2 hours Sakurama Ujin holding out an open fan on the practice stage Witness It Live — Noh

Noh: Listen, Repeat and Walk on a Cypress Practice Stage in Tokyo

Tokyo 2–3 hours A painted dance fan, opened on a lacquered surface Witness It Live — Nihon Buyō

Nihon Buyō: A First Lesson with a Fan in a Ginza Practice Studio

Tokyo 2–3 hours Silk held taut on bamboo stretchers as blue is brushed across it Wear the Craft — Hikizome

Hikizome: Brush-Dyeing Fabric in a Shinjuku Kimono Workshop

Tokyo About 2 hours A pair of hina dolls in layered court robes Make It Yourself — Kimekomi Dolls

Kimekomi: Making Your Own Edo Doll at the Workshop of the Third-Generation Mataro

Tokyo About 2 hours A brush filling in a family crest on a paper lantern Make It Yourself — Edo Chōchin

Chōchin: Writing Your Own Paper Lantern in a Tokyo Workshop Founded in 1913

Tokyo About 2 hours A wooden mallet driving a chisel into silver Make It Yourself — Silversmithing

Silver Chasing with a 13th-Generation Workshop

Tokyo About 2 hours Whisking thick tea Witness It Live — Chaji

A Chaji Tea Gathering with the 18th Head of the Sowa School

Tokyo A little under half a day A noh mask lifted to the face Witness It Live — Noh

Wearing a Noh Mask on a 700-Year-Old Stage

Tokyo 2–3 hours A brush laying ink on paper Make It Yourself — Sumi-e

Sumi-e Ink Painting in a Tokyo Keikoba

Tokyo About 2 hours Seated in zazen Witness It Live — Zazen

One Hour of Zazen in a Centuries-Old Asakusa Temple

Tokyo About 1 hour Polishing a blade on the stone Bring One Home — Sword Polishing

Holding an 800-Year-Old Blade in a Sword Polisher's Workshop

Tokyo 2–3 hours Kyōgen performed with a fan Witness It Live — Kyōgen

Kyōgen Comic Theatre With a 700-Year Lineage

Tokyo 2–3 hours Hydrangea arranged on driftwood Make It Yourself — Ikebana

Ikebana: Arranging the Space Between the Flowers

Tokyo About 2 hours Hands at the braiding stand Wear the Craft — Kumihimo

Kumihimo: Braiding Silk by Hand in a 300-Year-Old House

Tokyo About 2 hours
How It Works

From your first message to the day itself

  1. 01

    Get in Touch

    Tell us about your agency and the clients you have in mind. We reply within three business days.

  2. 02

    We Propose

    Share your clients’ interests and dates. We shape a day around the tradition that suits them and check it with the masters.

  3. 03

    We Prepare the Day

    Once you confirm, we prepare the experience with the masters and stay in touch with you until the day.

Contact Our Trade Team →

Tell us about your agency and your clients. No contract is needed to start. We are a small team, so we reply to enquiries in the order they arrive, within three business days.