Rei Naito ‘ Giving Back / Reconnaissance’ Reservation

Art and Interior

Mingei (Folk Crafts), Tang and Yi Dynasty antiques, contemporary art, crafts, Middle Eastern textiles, and European interiors installed in guest rooms and throughout the hotel.
Beauty is something that nature and people create together.
Beauty that has reached providence resonates across time and borders.

内藤礼/ Rei Naito

The "color beginning" (a pair of two paintings by contemporary artist Rei Naito) and a small wooden sculpture "Hito(=human)" are displayed in the library of Rakurado-an. The "color beginning" serie

林友子/ Yuko Hayashi

On the wall of the alcove in “do/soil” room, there is a commissioned work by Tomoko Hayashi, a contemporary artist who uses soil from the Rakudoan site. Before the construction of Rakudoan began, she

芹沢銈介/ Keisuke Serizawa

Serizawa Keisuke who is one of the artists who played a central leading role in the Mingei (folk art) movement and created stencil dyeing. In Rakurado-an, a large folding screen exhibited in the U.S.

濱田庄司/ Shoji Hamada

Shoji HAMADA, along with Mingei movement leader Muneyoshi YANAGI and Kanjiro KAWAI, was a central figure in promote and at the same time a good practitioner of Mingei theory. He supported the folk ar

石崎光瑤/ Koyo Ishizaki

Japanese-style painter from Nanto, Toyama He studied under “the Rimpa school” painter Koichi Yamamoto and learned the classics of the Rimpa school, and in addition, he spent time sketching nature in

ピエール・ジャンヌレ/ Pierre Jeanneret

In 1922, Pierre Jeanneret collaborated with his cousin, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) set up an architectural practice together. A series of furniture made by Pier

ハンス J.ウェグナー/ Hans J. Wegner

Hans J. Wegner played a major role in the overseas expansion of Danish design, and in the 1950s and 1960s he had a major impact by creating a series of furniture pieces that swept away the previous im

柴田雅章/ Masaaki Shibata

Slipware is a pottery that is made by drawing a pattern with creamy mud (slip) made by adding water to the soil, and then applying glaze to it, which was a practical vessel used as a pie plate especi

イサム・ノグチ/ Isamu Noguchi

Isamu NOGUCHI (1904-1988) American artist, landscape architect Born to a Japanese father and an American mother, Isamu Noguchi is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century who developed a

河井寛次郎/ Kanjiro Kawai

Ceramic artist Kanjiro Kawai was one of the founders of the Mingei movement. It is characterized by its powerful shapes and patterns, which can be described as somewhat primitive. Rakudoan exhibits an

棟方志功/ Shiko Munakata

Evacuated to Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture (then Fukumitsu Town, Nishi Tonami County), where Shiko Munakata spent 6 years and 8 months during and after the war, which led to the gathering of Muneyoshi

金京徳/ Kim Kyungduk

He moved from Korea to Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture, more than 20 years ago. He combines the various ceramic techniques he learned in Korea during the Goryeo and Yi Dynasty periods with the local cli

ハタノワタル/ Wataru Hatano

Washi paper created by Japanese washi-paper artist Hatano Wataru is used the walls and the ceiling of the library and the room of the Paper. You can feel calm and relaxed in the tender space.

松井機業/ Matsui silk weaving co.,ltd.

The walls and ceiling of the " Room of Silk" are richly decorated with a rare silk fabric called "shike-ginu". The cocoon was made irregularly by two silkworms and the thread have a unique taste, not

高松太一郎/ Taichiro Takamatsu

Taichiro Takamatsu, who studied tailoring at Savile Row in London, where the word suit, in Japanese, “sebiro” originated, and has worked for some of the world's most prestigious maisons, is responsibl

オーレ・ヴァンシャー/ Ole Wanscher

In furniture design, Ole Wanscher has focused on light and elegant forms. The chairs are often designed with elegantly curved, fluent arms that become one with the front legs. One example is the "Col

ポール・へニングセン/ Poul Henningsen

Known as the father of modern lighting, Poul Henningsen's lighting features a glare-free design that was created with light harmony in mind. The comfortable glare-free light created by the lighting su

安藤由香/ Yuka Ando

Characterized by refined shapes and colors, Yuka Ando's vases are both Western and Oriental, antique and contemporary, and have an universal beauty. A unique gradation of deep and slightly dull color

六田知弘/ Tomohiro Muda

One of Japan's leading photographers, Tomohiro Muda explores the "fundamental connection with nature and the universe," photographing and presenting a variety of phenomena such as objects, people, lan

ポール・ケアホルム/ Poul Kjaerholm

A typical expression of Poul Kjærholm's modest and elegant style, the PK22 is in harmony with the tender space cocooned in Japanese washi paper in the "paper" room.

神谷麻穂/ Asaho Kamiya

Asao Kamiya decided to become a potter because she was fascinated by the "materiality and texture of clay. That is why her work has a unique texture. The tender colors of her paintings come from moti

木下宝/ Takara Kinoshita

「simpleglass」という屋号で、透明で繊細なガラスアイテムを制作している木下宝が近年取り組んでいるのは、空き瓶を吹き直した「bottle origin」、樹木灰ガラスのアクセサリー「potash」シリーズ。楽土庵では、イルクリマの伊藤シェフと話し合いながら、富山県産のスポルティッドのミズナラと若鶴酒造のガラスのぐい飲みをアップサイクルした前菜用のトレイを始め、数種類のオリジナルの器

倉井秀延/ Hidenobu Kurai

The bed frames, bedside tables, and amenity boxes at Rakudoan are custom-made by his work. He learned to make "Shaker Furniture" from the Shakers' poor religious life, has created simple, functional,

早水恵一郎/ Keiichiro Hayamizu

Works with a texture that is hardly recognizable as Japanese paper, washi. It is made using paper and lacquer crafting technique called "ikkan-bari," in which Japanese paper is repeatedly layered over

田中早苗/ Sanae Tanaka

Sanae tanaka artworks are mainly made using the dry lacquer technique. Dry lacquer is a method of forming lacquer by layering hemp cloth or Japanese paper with lacquer or by forming with a mixture of

ジャスパー・モリソン/ Jasper Morrison

In Rakudoan, the lighting "GLO-BALL" designed by Jasper Morrison creates tender shadows in the lounge space, the traditional architecture in Toyama called "Wakunouchi".

森つくし/ Tsukushi Mori

Born in Hokkaido, she learned pottery in Kanazawa then encountered the climate in Toyama, then Potter Tsukushi Mori chose there as a place to create her work. Her impressive proportions of the "Fukur

作道僚子/ Ryoko Tsukurimichi

Ryoko TSUKURIMICHI Core glass" is one of the ancient glass forming methods that began in Mesopotamia around 1600 B.C. It is said to have disappeared around the 1st century B.C. with the appearance of

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