t o o k a

result of "RECOVERY NIPPON PROJECT" and info of t o o k a

2011-07-09T15:44:00.001+02:00

We really appreciate your support at “RECOVERY NIPPON PROJECT” through t o o k a on 1st of Mai.
We collected total 750chf from the day, and t o o k a donated 250chf, so total we could donate 1'000chf to the Japan Red Cross through this event.
Thank you so much!

We must inform tooka will have a short break for a while .
But we are planning to have our next event on December 2011.
We will inform you as soon as we are ready!!!

We are looking forward to seeing you on the end of this year.

t o o k a
Kana adn Tomoko

t o o k a @ Charity Bazaar "RECOVERY NIPPON PROJECT"

2011-04-16T12:07:00.008+02:00

The catastrophe in Japan on 11. March shocked all over the world.

The situation is still critical and it will take long time until Japan will find back to normal life.

We faced to the question, what can we do as Japanese living in foreign country.

We decided to join the project called “RECOVERY NIPPON PROJECT”

The concept of this project is to support Japan in a long term and not to forget this day.

The first project will be a charity bazaar.

More than 50 Japanese living in Switzerland will join this project and all the financial return will go to Japanese Red Cross Society.

We are happy to have you on this day to think of Japan together.

homepage
http://web.me.com/r.n.p/ch/Welcome.html

facebook
http://ja-jp.facebook.com/Recovery.Nippon.Project

Finissage Today!!, 23rd December

2010-12-23T11:40:00.000+01:00

t o o k a shop is going to finish soon!

t o o k a will be daily open untill 23rd December .....The Last day!!
Address: Predigerplatz 42, Zürich
Opening Hours: 12.00-19.00

We would like to welcome all of you to our
Finissageday on the 23rd December. from12.00 to 19.00

There are the last of the delightful products....

Japanese cotton bag from aterie Penelope

Bird ring holder.....last one!

Nail clipper Big.....last one!

Architecture model series.....be quick to get the one you like

Air vase....a few left for each color

Architecture model greetings card.....a few left for "Let's roll" "Kiss" "Friends" "Love"

Japanese lacquer teacase.....last one for each color!

Hand beated metal plate with ceramic spoon....4 plates and 4 spoons are left!

Japanese candles set....the last set!

We are looking forward to having you in last three days in our t o o k a shop!

Kana and Tomoko

Some more new products!

2010-12-10T00:19:00.002+01:00

From Today, t o o k a have some more new products of Japanese-papaer products.

They are bags in several sizes, computerbags, slippers...and so on. colors are black and red.

They are all made in a traditional papaer factory in Japan. Please take a close look at our shop!

You will see the strong and beautiful Japanese paper quality.

t o o k a will be daily open untill 23rd December
Address: Predigerplatz 42, Zürich
Opening Hours: 12.00-19.00

t o o k a 04 Open!

2010-12-05T00:05:00.001+01:00

Today, we had a great Opening day! Thank you for visiting us on the first day.

We hope that we could provide the delightful objects for your life!

Pleae come by again to check out for more new products!

We will be daily open untill 23rd December
Address: Predigerplatz 42, Zürich
Opening Hours: 12.00-19.00

More New products!

2010-11-27T09:07:00.000+01:00

Tin small plates: beautiful traditional handwork. never be the same

Tablebloom and Dustpan : handy, light, and beautiful to hang up

Soupbowl: ceramic. mat white in elegant shape

Red White Towel: linen kitchen towel. the more use the softer it gets


Face Notebook: comes with face parts stickers. great gift for kids!

New Products arrived for "t o o k a 04 okurimono"

2010-11-20T10:15:00.000+01:00

Here you can see some of our new products for "t o o k a 04 okurimono"

We have more and more new products and will be updated soon here!

small plate set: japanese graphic

Tea box: traditional laqur in modern shape

Tea can: handworker's beautiful technique

Welcome Soap: bring-luck-fish shape

Candle: traditional technique in modern shape

Thank you for visiting "t o o k a @ Pecha Kucha Night"

2010-11-20T10:01:00.000+01:00

Thank you for visiting for our presentation at Pecha Kucha Night!

It was a presure for us to introduce back ground of "t o o k a".

t o o k a @ Pecha kucha night

2010-11-05T20:35:00.006+01:00

t o o k a is going to talk at Pecha kucha night about the story why we started this event t o o k a and about Japanese desing products. Please join Pecha kucha night to know more about t o o k a!

Date : 18. November (Thursday)

Time : 20:20 - 22:59

Place : Kunstraum Walcheturm
Kanonengasse 20, 8004

Link : http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/zurich/

exhibition 04 o k u r i m o n o

2010-10-26T13:47:00.010+02:00

We will have our first three-week-shop in Niederdorf!

DATE : 4. Dec - 23. Dec
daily open

TIME : 12:00 - 19:00

PLACE : wechselkurs
Predigerplats 42
8001, Zürich

大きな地図で見る

We hope you can find nice Christmas present from t o o k a shop!

Thank you for visiting "t o o k a @ Cabaret Voltaire" !!

2010-09-15T19:46:00.000+02:00

It was our first "in shop" event!
Thank you for visiting us.
It was only for two days but we hope many customers got to know t o o k a !

tooka at Cabaret Voltaire

2010-09-01T18:28:00.014+02:00

Thursday, 02. September. 2010 you are able to get some tooka products at Cabaret Voltaire shop!
On this evening, there will be a concert of Japanese artist, Fuchigami to Funato from 20:30.
The shop will be open from 12:30 - 20:00.
We are looking forward to your visit at the shop and enjoy the concert together!

About Cabaret Voltaire
http://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch/

About Fuchigami to Funato
http://www.zueritipp.ch/story/musik/ich-haette-gerne-ein-schweizer-bankkonto/

Thank you for visiting "t o o k a 03 irodori" !!

2010-07-14T00:20:00.000+02:00

Thank you very much for all our guests visiting tooka on
almost the hottest day of the year!

We had such a wonderful time and it was our great pleasure to explain about the stories behind the products.

Thank you for your feedback, we will consider for our next event.

and...Thank you for Müllersigrist Architekten for letting us using the space.

We will see you again soon!
Our next event will be before Christmas. We will update the information later.

Kana and Tomoko

new products arrived for event 03

2010-07-06T18:56:00.001+02:00

1:100 Model Figur "Tokyo street"

Air Tray

Greeting Card

Black and White Animals

Accesory designed by Masako Ban (wife of Shigeru Ban)

Helmed designed by Sawako Furuno from London

... and some more interesting things!

July 10th is tooka summer festival !!

2010-06-29T20:40:00.000+02:00

On our upcoming event, t o o k a 03 "irodori" is combined with
Japanese style summer festival!

"irodori" means to add delight and pleasure to your life.

We will be waiting for you with many delightful design products.
At our bar, we will prepare some special games for kids as well!
it is called "Yo-Yo-Fishing"
come on and check it out!

Yo-Yo is water baloon...

Thank you for coming to "t o o k a at Rimini"!!

2010-06-22T13:02:00.000+02:00

Although it was cold evening, and World Cup season,
Many many great customers visited our stand.

Thank you very much!

It was very nice to meet new customers and we also learned a lot from the feedbacks.

Well, we are now prepareing already for our next tooka event3 on the 10th of July.
Please come by again and don't miss it!

Kana and Tomoko

There are some pictures from last night.

t o o k a at Rimini Nightmarket on 21st June, Monday!!

2010-06-18T00:09:00.000+02:00

t o o k a at Rimini Nightmarket is coming on the next monday, 21st June.

We prepare especially for Rimini guests many Japanese textile products.

special socks for women, textile bag, scarf, and many many more!

for example....the Bear! it is good for your lovely baby or your friends new-baby-born present!!
They are brothers and all will be waiting for you!

exhibition 03 i r o d o r i

2010-05-14T13:40:00.017+02:00

We are happy to announce all of you for our next event!

July 10th Saturday
14.00-23.00

Hofhaus Hildasteasse 14a
8004 Zürich
(Müllersigrist Architekten AG, 1.OG)

After Rimini nightmarket on Monday 21st June,

We are happy to have you all to our regular event.

Theme : i r o d o r i

irodori means to add delight and pleasure to your life.

We welcome you to a Japanese summer festival!

t o o k a at Rimini Nightmarket!!

2010-04-28T22:35:00.004+02:00

After long long winter, t o o k a is coming back to you in Zürich.

As a first event in 2010, we are happy to announce that we will be in Nightmarket at Rimini !

Monady, June 21st from 20.00 till 24.00

about Monday Nightmarket
http://www.montagsmarkt.ch

Rimini is a swimming river for men during the day and at evening is a normal bar.
http://www.rimini.ch

We are happy to see you again all at "Rimini Montagsmarkt"

t o o k a meets designer of Architectual model accessories

2010-01-24T00:32:00.001+01:00

Tomoko went to Tokyo and met the designer for our super popular products：
Architectual model accessories.

His name is Naoki Terada. He is an architect, based in Tokyo.
He wanted to help students, who work on the model over night!
But this product is also popular for non architects as well!
It is beautiful as a product and stimulates your creativity sleeping deep inside of your heart!

Here is the sample model, which his office made.
Look, how small and beautiful it is! and it tells so much of a story in a house...

For our next event, we will have more variety of the Architectual paper model.
Well, we are planning our next tooka event before summer 2010!

Thank you!

2009-12-06T16:53:00.002+01:00

Thank you for your visit and shopping at last "t o o k a 02"
We were very happy to have you!
and we are sorry that some products are sold out.

We will update our new products in our blog, so please check it out sometimes.

Next "t o o k a 03" is coming up in spring time. We will inform you by email.
If you want to be in our mailing list, please send us your email address to:
tooka@gmx.ch

We wish you a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Kana and Tomoko

exhibition 02 o s e i b o

2009-11-22T15:00:00.001+01:00

Next "t o o k a" exhibition is coming soon !

Friday evening 17.00-23.00 uhr

4th December 2009

at Dreieck

Gartenhofstrasse 27

Zürich

Thema: o s e i b o

In Japan, it's a custom to give gifts periodically to people such as co-workers, bosses, relatives, teachers, friends, and so on. The giving of end of year gifts is called oseibo. Department stores display many types and sets of oseibo gifts from November to December. Oseibo are specifically given to pay back favors received during the year.
This time we would like to introduce you a Japanese gift culture. There are many chances to give gifts in Japan. For traditional costumes, season greetings, marriage and also funeral and so on. For each occasion there are also different ways to pack the gifts, which have different meanings behind.
We would also like to introduce Japanese packing culture.

We are happy to have you on this day!

Kana and Tomoko

various products

2009-11-22T14:31:00.006+01:00

Here are some sample pictures of our various selections of the products.

Please come and check it out!

Tenugui bag

2009-11-22T10:18:00.009+01:00

14 different patterns of bags are waiting for you!
There are only 1 each. Don’t miss it!

Here are some samples of the bags.

Tenugui (cotton kichen towel)

2009-11-22T10:12:00.005+01:00

We have 8 different patterns for this event.
There are there stocks of each pattern, be quick! Don’t miss it!

Here are some sample pictures.

architectural model accessories

2009-11-19T08:48:00.004+01:00

"beautiful-ready-made-laser-cut paper model accessories" from Japan!!

It is already fun to see the package and makes you feel like making models.

Great gift for architects and kids.

Please come and check it out at our next tooka event on the 4th of December!

house shape gift box

2009-11-19T06:45:00.000+01:00

Christmas gift wrapping?
Don't wrapp with red and green paper this year!
Just put it in this beautiful white house shape gift box.
the small one, you can also use as christmas tree decorations.

We have two different shape of roof; triangle and curverd

Great gift for all of you, who has to wrapp christmas gifts!

reformable shopping bag

2009-11-19T06:20:00.000+01:00

Is it a tie? a scarf? no no, it is a bag.
Material is wholly recyclable polyester.
After using, this bag reforms to folding form by its self.
Although it is very thin and light, it can hold 7.5kg!

Great gift for your wife and your mother!

Bird vase

2009-09-28T07:26:00.002+02:00

Small beautiful ceramic bird. As a small vase, as a toothpick holder, or as a just a beautiful object by the window, please place it as you like...

30.chf

Bird ringholder

2009-09-27T10:41:00.000+02:00

This is a ceramic bird. ring on the neck, earrings on the wings...
It gives a poetic atmosphere in your bedroom.

40.chf

cutting glass

2009-09-25T19:46:00.001+02:00

This cutting glass is all hand made and it is from Kyoto. Two colors are available.

49.chf

Masking tape

2009-09-19T19:36:00.001+02:00

Original usage is for construction site or for car painting to cover the surroundings. But with the following reasons, it widens the original usage to more variety of usages.
* It is easy to peel and put it again.
* Variety of colors.
* Translucent material of Japanese paper.
For interior decoration, present wrapping, album picture decoration……Use your imaginations!!

Japanese traditinal pattern set box
30.chf

5.chf each

Eco-bag (tenugui)

2009-09-18T20:55:00.004+02:00

This bag is made out of one Tenugui cotton towel.Easy made and easy to use.and beautiful.

40.chf

Tenugui (cotton textile)

2009-09-18T19:58:00.004+02:00

This towel which is called “TENUGUI” came from very humid Japanese summer culture. It is a thin textile, which is easy to absorbent and to dry again and not get bulky. There are many beautiful patterns so you can use not only for kitchen towel but also for scarf or decollation for your table. You can also make a bag or cushion out of it!

23.chf each

History of Tenugui
In the Heian period (AD 794 - 1192) Tenugui was used as accessories for Shinto rituals. Cloth was such a precious item that the use of the item was not widespread among the people during the Nara period (710 - 794). From the Kamakura period (1192 - 1333) on, it gradually became popular. In the Edo period (1592 - 1868) cotton began to be cultivated in various parts of Japan and Tenugui became a necessary item for living. It was around this time that people started to regard it as a valuable item not only in terms of its functions but in terms of its artistic value. Then a contest called “TENUGUI-AWASE” became a widespread event among a certain type of people who tried to win with their original designs on Tenugui. Such competition contributed to the development of new dyeing techniques. In the Meiji era (1868 - 1912) a dyeing technique called “Chusen” was devised and it extensively revolutionized the industry. In or around the Showa period (1926 - 1989), a variety of associations were formed by people who love Tenugui and such associations spread throughout the country with Tenugui as an item which is no longer within the realm of daily necessities. Today there are many different colors and patterns of Tenugui and people have free minds of how to use Tenugui.

Magic cutter

2009-09-18T19:00:00.001+02:00

In Switzerland, all the official papers come in post. It’s a magic, this product doesn’t look like a tool but it is a letter opener. With this magic cutter, you can open smart and no more cutting off the important paper inside!

9. chf

you can reserve this product through e-mail.

Yarn scissors

2009-09-05T22:43:00.002+02:00

This is a particular scissor to cut thread (yarn) when you sew.This sharp point allows to pick up even small piece of yarn. This will make your sawing much comfortable and precise.

30. chf

you can reserve this product through e-mail.

Nail clipper

2009-09-02T09:44:00.015+02:00

KIYA is one of the most known and traditional cutlery company founded in 1571 at Tokyo. What is distinctive about this nail clipper is that there is a case around it to collect your nail. From now on you can cut your nail anywhere because the nail will not fly away in your room!

This bigger one is the standard size.

20. chf
you can reserve this product through e-mail.

r a n k i n g

2009-08-26T22:06:00.021+02:00

The ranking of interested products of exhibition 01.

TOP 1!! m a s k i n g t a p e

TOP 2. t e n u g u i

TOP 3. e c o - b a g

4. c u t t i n g g l a s s

5. m a t

6. c o w c l i p

7. p i n s e t

8. c h a r c o a l s o a p - b i g

9. y a r n s c i s s o r s

10. m e a s u r e

exhibition 01 b l a c k

2009-08-08T22:16:00.030+02:00

Thank you for your interest and sharing a fantastic atmosphere!
It was very exciting 3 days!

Fuchigami to Funato

2009-08-07T23:03:00.000+02:00

Fuchigami to Funato

im Helsinkiklub

Geroldstr. 35, 8005 Zürich (beim Bahnhof Hardbrücke)

http://www.helsinkiklub.ch/

Mi 2. September, 21h Bar ab 20h
Fuchigami to Funato

Do 3. September, 21h Bar ab 20h
Fuchigami to Funato to Lucas Niggli

Junko Fuchigami (voc), Hiroshi Funato (b)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cp3j-fcgm/

Lucas Niggli (drums)
http://www.lucasniggli.com/

Out now!

Funato Bakery (Album, 2008)
Funato Bakery (Maxi-Single, 2009)
Two Afternoons (with Tomobe Masato, 2009)

Konzerte 2009

2. September, 21h Zürich
Helsinkiklub, Geroldstrasse 35 Bar ab 20h
http://www.helsinkiklub.ch/

3. September, 21h Zürich mit Lucas Niggli (Drums)
Helsinkiklub, Geroldstrasse 35 Bar ab 20h
http://www.helsinkiklub.ch/

4. September, 20h30 Obermorschwihr (Colmar)
Ancienne Abbaye de Marbach
http://marbach-culture.fr.gd/Vendredi-4-septembre.htm

5. September, 20h Berlin
St. Elisabeth-Kirche (Arch. K. F. Schinkel, 1835)Invalidenstr. 3, Berlin - Mitte

6. September, 21h Berlin
Gulasch, Winsstr. 9, Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg
http://www.gulaschberlin.com/

8. September, 20h30 Saint-Louis (bei Basel)
Café Littéraire, 19 Avenue Général de Gaulle, entrée libre sur réservation resa.culture@ville-saint-louis.fr tel +33 (0)3 89 69 52 23 9./10. September, 22h Paris mit Fantaziole Limonaire, Bistrot à vin et à chansons, 18 cité bergère, 9ème
http://limonaire.free.fr/

11. September, 21h30 Strasbourg
Nuit de l'art contemporainAccélérateur de Particules, 12 rue du Faubourg de Pierre, Espace Apollonia
http://accelerateurdeparticules.net/

15. September, Venezia
Architektur Fakultät Venedig

2009-08-03T21:53:00.009+02:00

t o o k a : delightful object for your life

We are Kana and Tomoko, Japanese architects living in Zürich.

We are organizing an event 2 - 3 times a year at various places. The event is to introduce delightful Japanese objects selected by our keen eyes. At the same time, we would like to introduce Japanese culture through these carefully designed products. You can buy our products at these events as well.

The information will be announced at this blog. If you would like to be announced personally, please send us an e-mail at following address.
tooka@gmx.ch

It is our pleasure to exchange our culture and share our interests together at this event!