KAJART Quiet Furniture from Kiso
A slatted wooden sofa in a timber-framed room; beyond the wide opening, a deck, grassland and the sea below distant hills.

KAJART

Quiet furniture from Kiso.

C810 SOFA Chikyū no Tamago Architect: Masahito Nagata

Three-quarter view of the C606 Hanpen Chair showing the chestnut seat and the arm rests extending from the back.
C606 Hanpen Chair — Akio Okumura, 1976
Detail of the curved backrest of the C606 Hanpen Chair.
The curve of the backrest
Detail of the drawer fronts: figured wood grain under a black top
Residence in Seijō — wall drawer
Tsuguto Yoshida smoothing the seat of a small wooden bench with a sanding block at a workbench. Black-and-white photograph.
In the workshop — Tsuguto Yoshida

Made slowly.
Made to remain.

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Collection

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Spaces

The furniture in the homes and buildings it was made for — documentary records preserved from the previous website.

House in Fuchinobe: a dining table with low chairs surrounded by shoji windows, a bench along the window
House in Fuchinobe — T704 & C606 Architect: Satoshi Irei C606 Hanpen Chair →
Interior of Itsutsubashi Church, Sendai: a wooden altar and chairs before a concrete wall and a wooden cross
Itsutsubashi Church, Sendai Design: Akio Okumura
House in Ichikawa: dining table and chairs by a shoji screen, a sofa beyond
House in Ichikawa — AT207 & AC210 Architect: Masahito Nagata AC210 Chigiri Chair →

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Two benches hewn from single logs in a sunlit hall

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KAJART

KAJART makes furniture designed by Akio Okumura and Tsuguto Yoshida, continuing a workshop tradition shaped by architecture, the body and wood.

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Made in Kiso

The workshop works in solid timbers such as mizunara oak and Japanese chestnut, finished with restrained matte clear lacquers that let the grain speak.

Furniture has been made here since the company was founded in 1978; the C606 Hanpen Chair has been in continuous production since 1976.

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A hexagonal paper lantern glowing on a tatami floor
Rokkaku andon

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The workshop

Mitake, Kiso, Nagano — where the designing and the making happen in the same place. From the workshop pages of the previous website.

Inside the timber workshop: two makers at their benches under a skylight, timber and jigs stacked along the walls.
Studio Mitake, Kiso, Nagano
Squared timber stacked with spacers, the end grain forming a grid of growth rings.
Stacked squared timber
A timber storehouse among trees, its plank roof weighted with stones above a dry-stone base.
ITAKURA

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The lineage

Black-and-white portrait photograph of Akio Okumura in a knitted sweater, smiling and looking to the side.
Black-and-white portrait of Tsuguto Yoshida, in a striped shirt against foliage, speaking with both hands raised.

Akio Okumura Architect and furniture designer (1928–2012)

Tsuguto Yoshida Furniture designer and head of KAJART

The furniture of KAJART follows two lineages: chairs and tables designed by the architect Akio Okumura (1928–2012), and the designs of Tsuguto Yoshida, who trained under him. Both are made in the same workshop in Mitake, Kiso — the same timber and the same hands carry both bodies of work forward.

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