KAFUKU — Rare Timber Objects, Japan

Wood the world can no longer grow.
Objects that can no longer be made.

KAFUKU.

Japan · Rare Timber Objects

The Materials

Rare by nature. Rare by law.

The forests are closed.
What remains, remains.

At the centre of our work is timber the world can no longer produce — species protected under international treaty, forests sealed by national decree. Each piece carries the full weight of that disappearance.

Indian Rosewood / Listed under CITES Appendix II, 2017. Export from origin restricted since the 1980s.

Yakusugi Cedar / Felling banned 2001. UNESCO World Heritage, 1993.

Figured Burl / No two faces are alike. No face will be made again.

2017

Dalbergia listed under CITES Appendix II, closing global trade

2001

The year this inventory of rare timber was last acquired

∞

Time required to grow what now remains in our inventory

The Craft

Trained where precision is sacred.
Working where wood is irreplaceable.

Our master craftsman trained in the workshops of national treasures — Yakushiji Temple, one of Japan's oldest Buddhist sites.

Milled, submerged, and dried over years — a process measured in seasons, not weeks.

That discipline meets timber that demands equal respect.

Our Roots

1907

The year our sawmill began.

YATOMI SEIZAI

Since 1907, our family
has worked with wood.

KAFUKU is rooted in YATOMI Seizai, a sawmill founded in 1907, with generations of milling, drying, and preservation behind it. An intimacy with rare timber that cannot be acquired — only inherited. KAFUKU is how that understanding speaks today.

We welcome conversation.

For gallery enquiries, wholesale, or bespoke commissions —
each piece begins with a dialogue.

The forests are closed.What remains, remains.

Since 1907, our familyhas worked with wood.

The forests are closed.
What remains, remains.

Since 1907, our family
has worked with wood.