From now on, my main activities will be making bamboo rods and improving the environment.

Without human intervention, the natural environment and land would become degraded year by year.

The same is true for bamboo; by thinning it out every year, it grows into thick, straight bamboo with a large diameter and thick fibres like this.

About Madake bamboo.

Madake bamboo has been an indispensable material in Japanese life since ancient times.

It's a material deeply familiar to the Japanese, having been used for tea ceremony utensils, bows, baskets, bamboo swords, and many other everyday tools.

I spent nearly 20 years maintaining the bamboo groves, transforming them into a forest of bamboo with the ideal diameter and internode spacing for bamboo rods.

By employing the Western method of making hexagonal bamboo rods, I combined this Japanese-style material with Western techniques to create the ideal bamboo rod.

To put it a little stylishly, it has a subtle touch of Japanese spirit.