Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum Letter Writing Pad

This letter writing pad features an illustration of a sumitsubo (ink pot) utilised by carpenters to draw straight lines. The sumitsubo does this by snapping an ink-coated line of silk string onto the surface of the wood, similar to a chalk line tool.

The illustration is by Philippe Weisbecker, an artist and illustrator based in Paris and Barcelona. He created a collection of illustrations of carpentry tools from Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum during a four-month artist-in-residence programme at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.

Size : 18 x 8.5cm

Kansai

The Kansai region includes the second-most populated metropolitan area in Japan with its largest city Osaka. Kyoto and Nara, two of Japan’s former capital cities, are home to important temples and shrines and strongholds of intangible cultural heritage, such as the Kyoto textile weaving skills of Nishijin.