ABOUT US
Since from 1924, we've been challenging Interior products during practical table wares was sharing major among Wajimanuri industry.
Now we stubbornly keep protecting our analogue "Face to Face" policy as we Wajimanuri producer, Nushiya.
We strongly recommend you to feel our physical product with your own sense as long as possible, and make sure you have certain memory who you met, who we met.
We believe that how shopping and order should be made.
Plus, it is very true that real products talks you a lot rather than digital image in front of you.
That's one of the reason we won't try to have online shop in this High Tech industrial 21st century.
You may think how come overseas people manage to find our products? It's easy. They simply visit our local boutique, choose whatever they wish for thoroughly, have long, long chat with us, find their favorite person in charge of, pay and leave.
Now and in the future, we take your feed back sincerely, consider it, keep moving forward with making people & tradition alive in this real world.
Our History
Taisho era
Otoo became apprentice of Goshimaya, married Hanako Goshima as officially part of the clan.
Taisho 13（1924）
Otoo had Registration of Trade Name
Devoted his life to developing wajimanuri industory as leader of Wajimanuri Guild.
Showa 39（1964）
Kotaro Goshima suceeded the family business.
Breaking through from old structure, started to develop new department specialized in furniture and interior section.
Expanded its business all over Japan, Sogo, Mitsukoshi, Daimaru, Matsuzakaya(now Daimaru-matsuzakaya), Ginza Wako etc
Showa 47（1972）
Kotaro enrolled the Goshimaya legally as official company.
Built 7F(workshop and show room), U1F(lacquer sup storage) building
Heisei 15（2003）
Yakuji Goshima assigned as CEO
Heisei 22 (2010)
Collaboration with NISSSAN Egoist GTR handle emblem
ABOUT
WAJIMA LACQUERWARES.
1st.Practical. 2nd.Beauty. That's our feature.
The fine & firm foundation is the best feature of Wajimanuri, makes the injured layer repairable, and let it reborn beautifully.
We call them NAOSHI-MON(repairing in Wajima dialect).
Deep crack(complete separation of wood) may force to make a new replica, but shallow injure until the foundaition is still fixable.
Sturdy for daily use, and has anti germ, acid, therm effect.
Using daily is the best care for Wajimanuri, so take meal with it, and wash, give moisture every day if you could.
The surface would increase the shines and nice texture of your own will be personalized more while you keep using it.
Please avoid microwave, dishwasher, oven, plus fridge.
Even if you won't see the backwards of Zataku, we neatly finish the surface as politeness to our customers. That's the policy as Nushiya, Goshimaya. Thanks to the supports from our customers, we'll be 100 years old in 2024.
We'll keep moving forward by creating active imagination based on rational logic, wishing people have sparkle joy.
NEAT & TOUGH BEAUTY.
Generally, it's the nature that fine traditional art work tends to be expensive, comes up throughout enormous process & dedication artisans life,
Especially in this category of traditional hand craft, Wajimanuri, designated as an important intangible cultural asset, crafts man has to face their own technique seriously in a nervous, tensed atmosphere over 124 process to finish.
People might say we're able to process the whole section by machinery made. However, matured human technique can reach to the detailed, complicated point, and do extra care upon experience and data considering about customers habit. Plus, human hand has will and soul to do that. That's the reason human hand conquers against machinery.
Neat finish achieves long life and beauty as practical art, added as a part of your family history.
