In 1974, Kurochiku Co. Ltd. started business in Kyoto. The founder, Setsuto Kurotake, was born between a Miya carpenter father and a lady in Nishijin weaver family line. Naturally he valued the “succession of Japanese tradition” and launch his business in the field of manufacturing and sales of Japanese goods and artifacts, restaurant, hotel

and architectural design. He even works on reproducing and preserving Machiya (conventional Kyoto houses) and planning cultural or traditional events, backed by the spirit to add cutting edge techniques into the beauty sense of Japanese culture