Notable Clients

Oprah Winfrey – American TV host, producer, actress, and author.

Gayle King – American television personality, author, and broadcast journalist for CBS News.

Ava DuVernay – American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer.

 

Notable Collaborations

Shozo Michikawa (artist)

Chiaki Horikoshi (artist)

Alex Kerr (author)

Terry Rosenberg (artist)

Kjell Hahn (artist)

Anita Gratzer (artist)

 

Exhibitions

2019     “Summer Evening Tea Gatherings” (Pakupakuan)

2019     “Minamiaoyama Grand Chayu” (Pakupakuan)

2018     “5W x Tamura Hajime, Tetsu no Shitsurai” (Akita Mado Waku)

2018     “Summer Evening Tea Gatherings” (Pakupakuan)

2018     Chiaki Horikoshi, “Don Quixote de Chiaki Original Art Exhibition” (BREEZE BREEZE)

2017      Azusa Komoda + Masako Niimi, “Seeds and Spores” (Pakupakuan)

2016     “6th Tensai 108” (Zojoji)

2016     “KANNA Autumn Art Festival” (Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture)

2015     Ryusuke Asai + Akira Yonebayashi (Musashiya Gallery)

2015     The 4th Sassama International Ceramics Festival, Shimada, Shizuoka City, Japan

2015     “KANNA Autumn Art Festival” (Fujioka City, Gunma Prefecture)

2015     Satomi Den Exhibition “Flow” (Sanki Bunko)

2015     Metalworker Tomohiro Nakamura Exhibition (Sanki Bunko)

2015     Chiaki Horikoshi’s exhibition “¡Mamá de mis entrañas” (Spanish Embassy in Japan)

2015     Hajime Tamura x Task Q exhibition “Shape Memory” (Pakupakuan)

2015     “Myoghi33Ennale” (Tomioka City Myogi Museum of Art)

2014     KANNA Autumn Art Festival (Fujioka City, Gunma Prefecture)

2014     Satomi Den exhibition “RACE x LACE” (Sanki Bunko)

2014    “Seeing is Seeing” (Roppongi Space Pavilion)

2014    “Chiaki Horikoshi’s Wabi-Sabi Play” (Park Hotel Tokyo)

2013    Tea Ceremony “Dripping and accumulating, Kise” at Gallery Nagayamon, Tsukuba Cultural Village

2013    “Art Line Kashiwa” (Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwa)

2013    “KCA house open studio 2013” (Honjo City, Saitama Prefecture)

2013    “Ippin Saraya” (hpgrp GALLERY)

2012    “Gendai Chayu Award 2012” at Tokyo Prince Hotel

2011    “Seion Koicha” (MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY)

2011    “Rinkan-Chayu ⇔ Suwa” (Suwa Taisha Shrine)

2011    Chiaki Horikoshi’s major solo exhibition “My Gut in Spain” (Instituto Nacional de Cervantes, Spain)

2011    Joint exhibition “Myoghi 30ennnale” at Myogi Museum of Art, Tomioka, Japan

2009    “Chiaki Horikoshi Exhibition” (Tsukishita no kajitsu-kai)

Notable Venues

Gokokuji Temple (Tokyo)

Imperial Hotel  (Tokyo)

Koho-an Temple (Kyoto)

Ueno Toshogu Shrine (Tokyo)

Embassy of Japan (Jordan)

 

Press

2024      FX Shogun (Hulu & Disney +) abc11 LOCALISH (English)

2023      Shinumadeni Yaritai! 10 (Manga)  

2020     KYOTO JOURNAL, ISSUE 97: NEXT GENERATIONS

2019     Quarterly Magazine “Kyoto Jornal 97” Interview (English)

2018     “Luxeat” Interview (English)

2016     Vogue Travel: Tea Ceremonies and Kiln Firings  (English)

2016     Outdoor Brand “A&F COUNTRY” General Catalog 2016 Essay

2015     Web Magazine “ethica” Interview 

2014     November Issue of “Poetry and Thought” (published and sold by Doyo       Bijitsu-sha Publishing)

2012     BS Premium “Bi no Tsubo” Special Edition

2012     Radio station YOKOHAMA FM “It’s always two of us”.

 

International Events

2013     Dance and Tea Ceremony performance “Transition From Arrival To Departure” (WELTKUNSTZIMMER, Düsseldorf in Germany)

2013     Premium Tea Ceremony (The Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam) 

2013     ELLE Eten Tea Ceremony (The Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam)

 

Workshops

2015  –  Present: Tea ceremony with international artists at Shiro Oni Studio artist residency

2014     KANNA Human Resource Development Workshop

2014     Tea ceremony instructor and on-site tea ceremony decoration at “The TOKYO TEA PARTY”, a workshop for tea and flower arrangement (Arflex Tokyo)

 

Creative Consulting

2017     Pakupakuan, “New Male Gems, Father’s Day Tea Gatherings” (Shinjuku Isetan)

2016     Pakupakuan “The 1st Japanese National Wakuwaku Creator _MARUGOTO_JAPANESE_ART_FES” (Asakusa Marugoto Nippon)

2016     Pakupakuan “One Flower One Tea” (Ginza Mitsukoshi)

2016     Ippin Saraya “Cha-Girl’s Tea Party; Osaka Cha-Girl” (Hankyu Umeda Store)

2015     Launch event of the new “Fuji Green Tea” series (THE BODY SHOP Shinjuku store)

2012     Ippin Saraya “Cha-Girl Goes to New York” exhibition (Shinjuku Isetan)

2011      Ippin Saraya “Cha-Girl’s Day Off” Exhibition (Shinjuku Isetan)

2011      VOGUE Japan: “Vivienne Tam meets Cha-Girl” at “Fashion’s Night Out 2011 Japan” featuring New York designer, Vivienne Tam