Thank you very much to all our supporters

Thank you very much to all our supporters.

Through the Makuake project, we were able to receive valuable opinions and feedback about our products.

Up until now, we have promoted our products through various opportunities, such as newspaper advertisements and exhibitions, but we have not had many opportunities to receive direct feedback from people who actually use our products.

Through this project, I was able to realize the importance of creating a product while interacting with our supporters.

I would like to create products based on custom-made products.

Through my involvement in various fields, including machine repair, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and local factories, I have come to realise that Japan's current manufacturing and human resource development has become a social model based on mass production and mass consumption.

The mass production and mass consumption social model has some advantages, such as allowing people to buy goods cheaply and to have products of the same quality.

On the other hand, in terms of sustainability, respect for individuality, and the emergence of social inequality, I feel that a mass production/mass consumption social model inevitably has strong negative elements.

It seems that Japan was also a completely circular society until the Edo period.

For example, when a tree is cut down, the large pieces are used to make the main pillars of the house, the scraps are used to make furniture, and the scraps are used to make chopsticks and other items, and the remaining scraps are used to cook rice in the hearth. Even pieces that have become wobbly after years of use are taken apart and used to cook rice in the hearth. If the ashes from the hearth are spread on the soil, it makes the soil alkaline, which helps trees grow.

In this way, they were able to circulate things very efficiently.

This cycle was not limited to forestry, but was also present in a variety of fields and industries.

However, it seems that one cycle took a very long time.

A tree grows → a house is built → it is dismantled → it is turned to ash and returned to the soil → another tree grows.

It will take an enormous amount of time, hundreds of years.

I think the biggest difference from modern society is that this ``enormous amount of time'' is spent circulating it.

I don't think Japanese people at the time were aware that they were spending an enormous amount of time creating a circular society.

Perhaps it was the awareness of valuing things and wanting to make the most of them.

Currently, when I make things, I am not able to create things in a sustainable, circular way.

We wondered if we could at least pursue sustainability by making things that could be cherished, and as a result, we decided to aim for custom-made manufacturing.

To make each product to order, it takes time to communicate with customers, create designs, and program them, and the probability of failure increases significantly, making it more expensive, so I feel that it is not an efficient or profitable business.

The thought repeatedly crossed my mind that it might be easier to mass produce and sell wholesale through B2B, but through interacting with the supporters of this project, I was encouraged and was able to realize the importance of custom-made manufacturing.

I feel that I want to continue to spend countless hours and efforts to create things that I will cherish.

We appreciate your continued support.