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TABLE & INTERIOR
Table & Interior
Resin × wood slab tables. For Japanese interiors and hospitality fit-outs.
KOCHI · NIYODOGAWA — HINOKI CRAFT & INTERIORS
A tree we were given.
Passed to four generations ahead.
Japanese cypress raised in the forests of Niyodogawa. River-resin slabs, cutting boards, masu, aroma oil, and the tools of the bath. For Japanese interiors, and the Japanese-style spa.
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PROLOGUE
Hinoki does not mature in a single lifetime.
The board in your hands today was planted decades ago, by someone whose face we will never know.
Wood is not made. It is received.
MATERIAL
The quiet power of hinoki.
Aroma, humidity control, natural antibacterial qualities, and the beauty of age. A material that answers the more it is touched and used.
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AROMA
Aroma
The clear scent of hinokitiol. It carries the breath of the forest into a room, and a bath.
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HUMIDITY
Humidity
It breathes moisture in and out. A clean material for kitchens and wet spaces.
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AGING
Aging
An amber that deepens with use. Even marks become the scenery of time.
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GRAIN
Grain
A board that will never occur twice. The rings are the time this tree lived.
ABOUT TREE FOR FOUR
T44 — Tree for Four.
Beyond Sanpō-Yoshi — the classical Japanese ideal of shared prosperity — we add a fourth. User, maker, forest and future: a board of Niyodogawa hinoki holds its long time only when all four are good.
01FOR THE SPACE
For the Space
A piece that becomes the center of a room. The more it is touched and used, the deeper the attachment.
02FOR THE HANDS
For the Hands
A fair return to the hands that work the wood. So the woodcraft of Niyodogawa can carry on.
03FOR THE FOREST
For the Forest
To use is to tend the forest. To cut, to replant, and to raise it again.
04FOR THE FUTURE
For the Future
The one who plants is not the one who fells. So today, we plant for the next four generations.
Sanpō-Yoshi, plus the future — our Shihō-Yoshi, good for all four.
SIGNATURE
Resin × wood. A river running through a single slab.
Resin holding the color of the Niyodogawa river, set into a single board of hinoki. A grain and a current that will never occur twice — at the center of your space.
- MATERIAL
- Single hinoki slab × epoxy resin
- FINISH
- Natural oil finish · ages with time
- ORDER
- Size, species and color made to order
NIYODOGAWATHE MAKING
We do not fell a tree. We receive it.
From forest to a single slab. Work that follows the wood, reads its time, and passes it to the next.
01FORESTForest
We choose and receive hinoki from the Niyodogawa mountains, with respect for the years it grew.
02MILLMill
Cut into a single slab and dried. We read the grain and warp, and decide how to let it live.
03HANDSHands
Carved, joined, and filled with resin. We do not fight the wood's habits — we follow them.
04FINISHFinish
Finished with natural oil. Not as completion, but as the beginning of its aging.
COLLECTION
From the forest, to living and bathing.
From the centerpiece of a room to daily tools and the ritual of the bath. A life with hinoki, in full.
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KITCHEN
Kitchen
Hinoki cutting boards. Gentle on the blade, quick to dry, and fragrant.
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BATH & SPA
Bath & Spa
Hinoki masu, aroma oil, and bath tubs (soon). The memory of the Japanese bath, scent and all.
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EVERYDAY
Everyday
Hinoki card cases. The scent of the forest and the hand, in your palm.
Chairs and bath tubs will join the lineup in stages.
IN CONTEXT
Placed in a space, the wood is complete.
Home, bath, and store. Hinoki becomes a scene only once it stands within daily life.
Ryokan & Home
In the alcove, on the table. A single board becomes the room's center of gravity.
Spa & Onsen
The scent of hinoki and rising steam. The memory of the Japanese bath, for spaces abroad.
Hotel & Store
The story of a place, in fixtures and counters. A one-of-a-kind piece sets the tone of a room.
FOR SPAS & INTERIORS
For Japanese spaces and Japanese-style spas.
For Japanese-style spas abroad, ryokan and hotels, architects and builders. We welcome OEM, custom and wholesale inquiries.
SPA & WELLNESS
Spa & Wellness
Hinoki tubs, masu and aroma oil — the Japanese bath experience, for spaces abroad.
INTERIOR & ARCHITECTURE
Interior & Architecture
Slab tables, fixtures and joinery. In partnership with designers and builders.
OEM & WHOLESALE
OEM & Wholesale
Logo engraving, custom specs, volume. Also for gifts and amenities.
FOREST & RESPONSIBILITY
Upon the gift of those before us.
We are kept alive by wood that someone we never knew once planted. So what we owe now is to return to the forest more than we received.
PLANT
Plant
Plant what comes after what we cut. For the forest four generations ahead — now.
TEND
Tend
Thin, let in the light, keep the mountain in order. To use is to keep the forest healthy.
PASS ON
Pass on
Satoyama and the culture of wood, to the next hand. Binding Niyodogawa itself, as a place.
Fell one, and plant the next. That is the way of Niyodogawa.
PEOPLE
The hands that shape the wood.
The hinoki of T44 comes from the hands of those who live in the mountains and workshops of Niyodogawa. Felling, planting, milling, carving — their daily work builds the forest four generations ahead.
YUSUKE OHARA
Yusuke Ohara
President/Ikegawa Mokuzai Kogyo
In Niyodogawa, he oversees everything in-house — from felling to milling to finished products. Protecting the nature and livelihoods of the mountain community, he makes the most of every part of the domestic hinoki.
KOJI SUZUKI
Koji Suzuki
Managing Partner/Niyood LLC
In the mountains of Niyodogawa, he stands on both sides of the work — felling and replanting. Through reforestation, planting seedlings again on harvested slopes, he carries the forest's cycle to the next generation.
CONTACT
Retail, custom orders & inquiries
Retail, wholesale, spa/interior projects, custom commissions. Reach us below.
T44 — HOUSE OF FOUR
One conviction, two brands.
Tea for Four, and Tree for Four. As a trading house of Niyodogawa, we bind the landscape four generations ahead.