Miyajima Pencase - Koitoya Woodworking Class 2026
Description
Miyajima Pencase
This is a 2-days course, Canberra workshop only
$595
10-11 October, Sat - Sun, 2026
Our new workshop program with award winning design item by Masashi Kutsuwa.
Beginners welcome.
Rich in special skill experience and cultural knowledge for intermediate woodworkers.
Based on traditional "Miyajima Tsugi", Japanese saw, chisel, plane works.
Content
Making Pencil / pen case, with inspiration from "Miyajima-Tsugi" joints.
Well suited for beginners.
Well suited for people who loves Japanese carpentry joinery.
Well suited for people who love beautiful craft.
Miyajima-Tsugi
Miyajima Tsugi was used for the famous shrine, Ikutsushima Shrine with its Torii gate in the ocean, also often used in the region around Miyajima, Hiroshima- prefecture. This joinery is quite unusual and was used in the place where 3 sides are exposed and trying to minimize the look of the joint when jointed. This beautiful joinery is the inspiration of this design.
Designed by Masashi Kutsuwa in 2007, award winning design
This pen case is award winning piece by Masashi Kutsuwa in Takaoka craft Competition in 2008.
One of 3 different deisgns all inspired from Japanese traditional joinery.
About Masashi Kutsuwa
Designer of "Miyajima" Pen Case
Professor of woodwork at Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture
Representative Director of Ginowa (General incorporated association)
Masashi is not just a very good designer & maker in Japan, he is also actively working for social purposes.
After working as a director in the NHK news department (8 years), training in woodworking in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture (2 years), and working as a furniture craftsman in the UK (5 years), he has been a teaching woodwork at Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture since 2006. His unique approach towards education led to introducing and blossoming successful Green Woodworking activities in Japan. He is involved in international exchange in the field of woodworking, including inviting overseas woodworkers to Japan for lectures and planning, managing, and interpreting for lectures overseas by Japanese woodworkers. He is involved in the preservation and transmission of traditional crafts and cultural assets in Gifu Prefecture, such as training successors to make cormorant baskets for the Nagara River cormorant fishing, securing materials for Gifu Japanese umbrellas (Egonoki Project), recording the manufacturing techniques for cormorant fishing boats, and securing boat carpentry tools. He founded Ginowa after visiting and interviewing blacksmiths who make tools all over Japan as a researcher for the Gifu Prefecture Cultural Heritage Division's "Project to Preserve and Pass on Tools that Support Craftsmanship" for five years starting in 2019.
Books: "Van Gogh's Chair," "Green Woodwork," "Green Woodwork Revised and Expanded Edition," and "Making Chairs with Green Woodwork."
Link
https://www.forest.ac.jp/english/https://www.instagram.com/ginowa_/
We will be donating 5% of the sales to Ginowa Organization, Masashi's traditional craft conservation activities.
You will gain the following from signing up
"Miyajima" Pencase, all made by yourself by hand.
Hands-on Japanese saw, Japanese plane experience.
Hands-on Japanese chisel experience with fine cutting and fitting.
Date
10-11 October 2026, Saturday and Sunday
Time
2 days, 12 hours in total
Day 1: 9:00-12:00 | 13:00-16:00
Day 2: 9:00-12:00 | 13:00-16:00
* Please be flexible with your schedule after the class. Sometimes your project requires extra time to finish.
Schedule
Day 1
AM: Lecture, Miter cut
PM: Groove cut / Glue up
Day 2
AM: Finishing the inside of box, Glue Bass and lid, Prep stitching
PM: Stitching with cherry bark, Finish sanding and oil
Lecturer
Hiroshi Yamaguchi (KOITOYA Design/Make/Teach)
30 years of experience. Learned in Takayama, Japan.
Fee
$595
Class size
Maximum 12
Location
Koitoya Design/Make/Teach (Fyshwick, ACT)
Address
4/18 Maryborough Street, Fyshwick ACT 2609
Parking
Please park your car in the public parking area along Maryborough Street (Free), opposite J Racing.
We have two parking spots officially. Please contact me for the spot if you need to walk less for a health condition.
Way to the workshop
18 Maryborough Street is a battle axe block, located inside of the block, so you will be walking along the driveway that leads to the block from Maryborough Street.
The driveway has 2 accesses, one next to Aqua Safe Water Filters, and one next to J Racing.
Unit 4 is a blue painted building on the right-hand side of the block.
Things to bring
Please wear working shoes.
Bring your own water bottle and lunch.
Things to be supplied
Tea and coffee, snacks, filtered water
Refund Policy
Personal cancelation
Refunds up to 14 days before event
Administration fee of 10% is nonrefundable.
for more information, please contact Hiroshi
koitoya@gmail.com / 0412340619
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