「原点回帰」は物事の本質を見極め、根本に立ち返る事。
物事を始めるときには理想を抱きます。
しかし現実の荒波に揉まれる中で、最初に抱いていた理想が次第にすり減ってしまう。
物事がおかしくなってきた時に、すり減った理想をもう一度取り戻す儀式。リセットではありません。
そこまで積み上げたものは絶対に無くなりません。
しかし、思考を原点に戻すことで、人は当初に抱いていた理想を思い出すことができます。
奈良に都があった頃から湯治客を招き、土産物として作られた山中漆器。国内外の販路を開拓、世界的デザイン賞の受賞など伝統的な山中漆器の技術の発信をしてきた。
歴史を振り返り山中温泉で1から原点回帰する。
それが「GATO MIKIO/1」です。
“Go back to the source” means to find the essence of things and to go back to the root.
When we start things, we have ideals.
However, as we are tossed about by the rough and tumble of reality, the ideals we initially held gradually wear away.
When things start to go wrong, it is a ritual to regain the worn out ideals once again. It is not a reset.
What has been built up to that point will never be lost.
However, by returning one’s thinking to its starting point, one can recall the ideals that were held in the beginning.
Yamanaka lacquerware was made as a souvenir to invite visitors to hot-spring cures since the time Nara was the capital of Japan. The company has pioneered domestic and international sales channels, won world-class design awards, and otherwise promoted the traditional Yamanaka lacquerware technique.
Looking back at the history, Yamanaka Lacquerware is going back to the basics in Yamanaka Onsen.
That is “GATO MIKIO/1”.
