Beyond Sustainability 

Shihori’s Guiding Principles

Source all materials as much as locally as possible

Link to the space/land it was produced in someway

Complete commissions while personally in the space

Bring Japanese culture into people’s everyday lives

Leave beautiful histories for the next generattions to share.

People and Histories

All of Shihori’s pieces are made from old Kimono fabrics that couldn’t be sold or are too precious to the owner to be thrown away. All fabrics were either donated by people who want their family erloms to live again, or were bought from local kimono recycle stores.

The inside of the sculptures are usually glass vases, bottles, or other natural heavy materials to act as a weight.

For those pieces that are not leaving Japan’s shores, she uses real preserved flowers. For those pieces that are destined to go overseas, she uses reused and thrifted fake flowers – in order to avoid strict boarder control laws.

For overseas commission works, she always brings her own Japanese fabrics with their story and history and then uses local materials to do the rest.