Workshop / OFUTON KOBO
Our Own Workshop in Japan
Japanese shikibuton, prepared and finished in Oyama, Tochigi.The current workshop is in Oyama, Tochigi, Japan.
Workshop staff carry out documented preparation, assembly, sewing, inspection, finishing, and packing responsibilities for the shikibuton made there.
The family business began as the Takahashi Cotton Shop in Kōtō, Tokyo in 1873.
The scale and equipment have changed, but the principle has not: keep responsibility for the work close to the people who make it.
Inside the workshop
The work, shown as it is done.
A relay through the workshop follows the people and equipment responsible for each stage, from preparing the materials to the final inspection.
- Location
- Oyama, TochigiOur own workshop in Japan
- Production
- Made in JapanDocumented by product and process
- Company record
- K000429J∞QUALITY production-process approval
- Representative
- Nakajō YūsukeFourth Generation · appointed 2017
About the workshop
Why we keep our own workshop
The workshop team has direct responsibility for documented preparation, assembly, sewing, inspection, and finishing tasks.
The people who operate the equipment can review work before and after their own task. Material, construction, and order questions are traced through the records available for the relevant product and process.
External records are shown separately from workshop responsibilities. The current release uses the official J∞QUALITY production-process company record, approval K000429.
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Documented work
Workshop responsibilities are described by the task and product record that supports them.
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Made in Japan
The current HIMARI and SORA product records identify Japan as the place of manufacture.
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Family stewardship
Nakajō Yūsuke carries the work forward as the Fourth Generation representative.
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Documented
Memberships and certification numbers are presented with their issuer and scope, rather than as unexplained badges.
Made in Japan · documented
Certification 01
J∞QUALITY production-process approved company
The official list records the Oyama workshop address under the former legal name Kobax Co., Ltd., approval K000429, valid through 2027-03-18.