Ki Arts represents the work of Hiroshi Sakaguchi, a master carpenter from Japan living in the United States. Sakaguchi-san has both consummate skill in the ancient art of Japanese wood joinery and intimate knowledge of traditional Japanese architectural design. Trained in Japan from an early age, he established Ki Arts in Northern California over 25 years ago.
His mission is to bring the highest quality in Japanese architectural design and Japanese woodworking to the West. He has many years experience integrating Japanese design with Western architecture and needs. Sakaguchi-san assures impeccable craftsmanship for anyone wishing to bring the elegant harmony of Japanese architectural design and Japanese woodworking to their home or garden.
He fabricates Japanese-style entrance gates (mon) for homes and gardens as well as other garden structures such as viewing pavilions, curved bridges (taikobashi), and pergolas (fujidana). Sakaguchi-san has adapted his expertise in Japanese joinery to the creating of custom Japanese fine furniture including chests (tansu) and tea tables (chabudai).
His mission is to bring the highest quality in Japanese architectural design and Japanese woodworking to the West. He has many years experience integrating Japanese design with Western architecture and needs. Sakaguchi-san assures impeccable craftsmanship for anyone wishing to bring the elegant harmony of Japanese architectural design and Japanese woodworking to their home or garden.
He fabricates Japanese-style entrance gates (mon) for homes and gardens as well as other garden structures such as viewing pavilions, curved bridges (taikobashi), and pergolas (fujidana). Sakaguchi-san has adapted his expertise in Japanese joinery to the creating of custom Japanese fine furniture including chests (tansu) and tea tables (chabudai).
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Hiroshi Sakaguchi is a traditionally trained carpenter or "daiku" from Japan.
Sakaguchi-san's understanding of wood comes not just from over forty-five years of experience, but from a family inheritance of woodworking that goes back generations.
In Japan, traditional carpentry is a high art that takes very long and rigorous training.
From the age of 15, Hiroshi Sakaguchi began an apprenticeship in the ancient and very complex art of Japanese joinery, a carpentry system that connects wood by intricate joints rather than screws or nails.
Sakaguchi-san's understanding of wood comes not just from over forty-five years of experience, but from a family inheritance of woodworking that goes back generations.
In Japan, traditional carpentry is a high art that takes very long and rigorous training.
From the age of 15, Hiroshi Sakaguchi began an apprenticeship in the ancient and very complex art of Japanese joinery, a carpentry system that connects wood by intricate joints rather than screws or nails.
This versatile 7 tatami-mat traditional Japanese room (nihoma) can serve as a guest room, a dining room, a family room.
In the room center is a 3'x6' low dining table made of black ash and large enough for inviting guests to enjoy a traditional Japanese hotpot.
A recess in the floor (horikotatsu) allows for Western-style sitting and provides a storage space for the table when not in use.
The room is framed with southern cypress.
The ceiling is Western red cedar, and traditional Japanese mud plaster (juraku) is used on the walls.
In the room center is a 3'x6' low dining table made of black ash and large enough for inviting guests to enjoy a traditional Japanese hotpot.
A recess in the floor (horikotatsu) allows for Western-style sitting and provides a storage space for the table when not in use.
The room is framed with southern cypress.
The ceiling is Western red cedar, and traditional Japanese mud plaster (juraku) is used on the walls.
This space was built for the CEO of a high-tech company in Silicon Valley.
Placed in a large office building, it provides a serene setting in contrast to the fast pace of the rest of the building.
It includes a traditional Japanese alcove (tokonoma), tatami-mat floor, a ceiling of red cedar panels framed by white cedar, and walls surfaced with Japanese mud plaster.
The 3'x 6' table is made of cherry wood.
Though this Japanese style office contains electronic equipment enabling the owner to run a high-tech company from his home, it has the simplicity of traditional Japanese design.
Placed in a large office building, it provides a serene setting in contrast to the fast pace of the rest of the building.
It includes a traditional Japanese alcove (tokonoma), tatami-mat floor, a ceiling of red cedar panels framed by white cedar, and walls surfaced with Japanese mud plaster.
The 3'x 6' table is made of cherry wood.
Though this Japanese style office contains electronic equipment enabling the owner to run a high-tech company from his home, it has the simplicity of traditional Japanese design.
This traditional Japanese house, built at Green Gulch Farm, includes a tearoom (chashitsu) and small kitchen (mizuya) for studying the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
The entrance room servers as a transition space between the exterior and interior where shoes are removed.
Its ground level floor is made of black pebbles embedded in cement.
Walls are surfaced with Japanese mud plaster.
The sliding entrance door is glass supported by a white cedar grill-style frame.
Shoji screens can close off the entrance room from the interior.
The entrance room servers as a transition space between the exterior and interior where shoes are removed.
Its ground level floor is made of black pebbles embedded in cement.
Walls are surfaced with Japanese mud plaster.
The sliding entrance door is glass supported by a white cedar grill-style frame.
Shoji screens can close off the entrance room from the interior.
Ki Arts offers Japanese style interiors, entrance gates, garden structures, and fine furniture designed and crafted by Japanese master carpenter, Hiroshi Sakaguchi.
Located in northern California, Ki Arts has had many years experience adapting Japanese design to Western needs.
This family-run business was started in 1985 by Sakaguchi-san and his wife, Ann Gerber Sakaguchi.
Ki, pronounced "key, " means "wood" in Japanese.
Since Japanese construction is a post and beam system held together by an intricate system of joinery, the components for Japanese style interiors and garden structures are "pre-fabbed" by Sakaguchi-san at his Ki Arts workshop.
Located in northern California, Ki Arts has had many years experience adapting Japanese design to Western needs.
This family-run business was started in 1985 by Sakaguchi-san and his wife, Ann Gerber Sakaguchi.
Ki, pronounced "key, " means "wood" in Japanese.
Since Japanese construction is a post and beam system held together by an intricate system of joinery, the components for Japanese style interiors and garden structures are "pre-fabbed" by Sakaguchi-san at his Ki Arts workshop.
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