Sustainability

Sustainability

At Takesada Shoten, we are dedicated to the sustainable use of bamboo through our Bamboo Community Initiative.To address the growing issues of aging forestry workers, a lack of successors, and the spread of unmanaged bamboo groves, we lease bamboo forests from local landowners and train new harvesters – known as kiriko. These trainees learn essential harvesting techniques, and we are committed to purchasing all the bamboo they harvest for use in our products.

We also ensure that nothing goes to waste: offcuts from processing are repurposed as soil improvers, creating a circular system where every part of the bamboo is put to use.Through this initiative, we are building a sustainable model that not only revitalizes local bamboo resources but also passes them on to future generations.