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A round tray with a herringbone weave for elegant table presentation woven solely from akebia vine in Kaminoyama City, Japan by Nao Ochiai, who has been working with akebia fibre for over two decades. Akebia is a vine which grows along the ground and makes very strong, long-lasting baskets. The fami..
£89.00
Ex Tax:£74.17
A lovely hanging basket woven from akebia vine and wild grape vine in Kaminoyama City, Japan by Nao Ochiai, who has been weaving with akebia fibre in her signature ‘Midare-ami’ pattern (shape of snow) for over two decades. Akebia is a vine which grows along the ground and makes very strong, lo..
£89.00
Ex Tax:£74.17
Brand: Small items
A box of 10 small dip-dyed Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles), renowned for their steady burning and even flame. Made of rice bran wax, a hard yellow wax extracted from the otherwise wasted husk and germ of rice. The wicks are made of washi paper, rolled around a rush skewer, and the body is built up b..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
A white porcelain candle stand, with iron central stem, for holding Japanese hollow-stem candles. Measures 3.1cm diameter x 2.2cm high. Made exclusively to fit Daiyo's Japanese Coloured Candles (candles not included). The makers advise that you do not need to push down a candle until it reaches..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
A white porcelain candle stand, with iron central stem, for holding Japanese hollow-stem candles. Measures 3.1cm diameter x 2.2cm high. Made exclusively to fit Daiyo's Japanese Coloured Candles (candles not included). The makers advise that you do not need to push down a candle until it reaches..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
A box of 10 hand made hexagonal, or “Rockaku”, candles. Renowned for their steady burning and even flame due, in part, to their use of rice bran wax, a hard yellow wax extracted from the otherwise wasted husk and germ of rice. Washi paper wicks, rolled around a rush skewer, are built upon by smoothi..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A gift box containing a tub of 20 Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles), renowned for their steady burning and even flame, supplied with a black porcelain candle stand with iron spike, for holding the candles in use. Made of rice bran wax, a hard yellow wax extracted from the otherwise wasted husk and ger..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
A box of 10 45mm dip-dyed Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles), renowned for their steady burning and even flame. Made of rice bran wax, a hard yellow wax extracted from the otherwise wasted husk and germ of rice. The wicks are made of washi paper, rolled around a rush skewer, and the body is built up by..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: Small items
A white porcelain candle stand, with iron central stem, for holding Japanese hollow-stem candles. Measures 3 x 3 x 2cm (plus metal spike). Good for small to medium sized candles. The makers advise that you do not need to push down a candle until it reaches at the bottom of the stand. When a candle s..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Small items
Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) renowned for their long burning and even flame. Made of a hard fat, not entirely dissimilar to tallow, but extracted from the berries of specially bred sumac trees native to western Japan. The flame of these candles is bigger and brighter than Western candles due..
£59.00
Ex Tax:£49.17
Brand: Small items
Nanohana — rapeseed blossom — is a landmark of Noto island, traditionally when sailors saw its yellow fields they knew they were nearly home. These Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) renowned for their steady burning and even flame, are made of wax taken from the canola flower. The wicks are made of wa..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
A pair of traditional Japanese 'Wa-Rousoku' candles, a type of candle first produced during the Muromachi period (1336 to 1573 AD), made with natural sumac wax. The flame of these candles is bigger and brighter than Western candles due to the hollow structure of the wick and the thickness of the can..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) renowned for their long burning and even flame. Made of a hard fat, not entirely dissimilar to tallow, but extracted from the berries of specially bred sumac trees native to western Japan. The wicks are made of washi paper rolled about a rush skewer and the body built..
£64.00
Ex Tax:£53.33
Brand: Small items
A beautifully smooth Japanese paper notebook, printed and stitched in sections, before being tape bound and trimmed at a small workshop in Tokyo. Each consists of 80 pages of fine paper, watermarked with a laid paper pattern. The grey rule lines are produced in small batches using a line gauge machi..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Brand: Small items
A ballpoint pen held within a brass case, from a small and long established workshop in downtown Tokyo, where each piece undergoes at least 10 separate pressings, between which it is annealed to relax any work hardening. Unvarnished, this pen comes from the 'wabi-sabi' school of thought: the raw bra..
£38.00
Ex Tax:£31.67
Brand: Small items
A pocket pencil held within a brass case, from a small and long established workshop in downtown Tokyo, where each piece undergoes at least 10 separate pressings, between which it is annealed to relax any work hardening. Unvarnished, this pen comes from the 'wabi-sabi' school of thought: the raw bra..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
A simple dispenser for use with Camellia Oil or similar — a convenient and mess-free way to keep your carbon steel tools in great condition. Simply fill it to about half full and the wadding will draw up the oil into the tip, ready to apply to your metal tools and knives, to help you prevent rust fr..
£14.50
Ex Tax:£12.08
Brand: Small items
A traditional Italian thick, circular wooden polenta platter for the serving of food at the table, great for breads, cheeses and fruit, frittata, tapas or small bites, or for the more traditional use of serving spread with freshly cooked polenta and topped with a tasty ragout. Turned from beechwood ..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Small items
A simple, solidly turned circular wooden bowl with a thick base for the serving of food at the table, great for serving generous individual portions of pasta, stir-fries and salads, or for serving side dishes. Turned from beechwood in Italy by Panetta Casalinghi, who have been producing traditional ..
£26.00
Ex Tax:£21.67
Brand: Small items
A 'Madia in Pino', or traditional Italian wooden flour kneading trough, used for kneading, resting, and sometimes storing dough. This large, rectangular wooden tub, is ideally suited for handling large quantities of bread or pasta dough, and can serve other household storage functions too. Measures ..
£44.00
Ex Tax:£36.67
Brand: Krumpholz
A stainless steel, wavy-bladed scraping tool, made in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. With a short hardwood handle into which the blade is riveted in place, this strong tool can be used to effortlessly clear weeds, moss and general grubbage from paving areas, between slabs in corners. 27cm length, with a..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: Krumpholz
A stainless steel, wavy-bladed scraping tool, made in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. With a longer hardwood handle into which the blade is riveted in place, this strong tool can be used to effortlessly clear weeds, moss and general grubbage from paving areas, between slabs in corners. 55cm length, with ..
£29.00
Ex Tax:£24.17
Brand: Small items
A hand-held hoe with larger blade to be used with a swinging or raking action to dig out and remove weeds in tightly planted borders. Hand produced in Catalonia at the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with small manufacturers. Founded in ..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Small items
A plain paper A5 sized notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Japanese paper section-sewn in four sections and glued inside a black cloth spine. The naturally cream coloured paper is ink friendly, bleed resistant, and..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
Brand: Small items
Made in Japan of Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used extensively in-house as the medium of their own writing and record keeping. Exceptionally fine, the paper is produced at a mill that undertakes every aspect of its manufacture from pulping..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
Made in Japan of Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used extensively in-house as the medium of their own writing and record keeping. Exceptionally fine, the paper is produced at a mill that undertakes every aspect of its manufacture from pulping..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A beautiful, undyed goat leather cover designed to fit MD Paper's book block diaries and notebooks (A6 size). Made in Japan using goat leather sourced from the highlands in the Central Asian mountains. Smooth and flexible, light and extremely robust, a single layer of protective leather fits snugly ..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
A Midori Diary for 2026, with matching reusable reinforced paper cover to keep the diary safe and protected, presented in a re-usable string and washer envelope, perfect for gifting. Made in Japan using Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used ex..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
A Midori Diary for 2026, with matching reusable reinforced paper cover to keep the diary safe and protected, presented in a re-usable string and washer envelope, perfect for gifting. Made in Japan using Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and used ex..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
A Midori Diary for 2026, with matching reusable reinforced paper cover to keep the diary safe and protected, presented in a re-usable string and washer envelope, perfect for gifting. Made in Japan using Midori Diary paper, a paper developed from the founding of the Midori company in 1950 and us..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Small items
Made in Japan, using stiff, yet flexible card produced at a mill that undertakes every aspect of its manufacture from pulping, to drying, and final rolling. With a pleasingly smooth texture and a soft, natural colour which will pick up its own patina as it ages, this book jacket is made ..
£29.00
Ex Tax:£24.17
A practical, ringbound planner with an elastic band. which enables the calendar to stand upright upon a desktop — making it easy to glance at when reference is needed. Contains a monthly overview from January 2026 to January 2027, project pages after each month for tasks and tracking, and other page..
£16.00
Ex Tax:£13.33
Brand: Small items
A rather neat dark brown anodised extruded and precision ground aluminium folding desk top ruler from Japan. Ideally sized at 15cm to fit easily into a pencil case, box, handbag or breast pocket, these fold out to form a full standard 30cm rule and straight edge for draughting or cutting. The pivot ..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A rather neat silver anodised extruded and precision ground aluminium folding desk top ruler from Japan. Ideally sized at 15cm to fit easily into a pencil case, box, handbag or breast pocket, these fold out to form a full standard 30cm rule and straight edge for draughting or cutting. The pivot is a..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
A spoon for use in cooking or serving, cut and shaped from cherry wood. This simple tool can be used for stirring food whilst cooking without damaging the surface of the pan, for mixing batter, or paired with a matching fork for the serving of salad. Cherry wood is a hardwood, highly durable and res..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
A simple beechwood crepe spatula from the Italian company, Eppicotispai — located in the Lago Maggiore region in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. Used in the spreading of crepes onto a pan, as well as releasing them from the cooking surface. We recommend oiling the wood periodically with a neutral o..
£5.00
Ex Tax:£4.17
Brand: Small items
Traditional Japanese scissors, only 105mm long. The scissors are forged from a single billet, the blades and centre being beaten flat at right angles, then the bar bent, set, and carefully tempered at the elbow to form a spring. These small scissors are suitable for delicate and precise work with pa..
£37.50
Ex Tax:£31.25
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A shorter version of this stainless steel, multifunctional gardening knife from Tsubame-Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, north central Japan, with a hardwood handle. Hori-hori means 'dig-dig' — these strong digging knives are used for weeding, planting, and historically for the careful extraction of pri..
£28.00
Ex Tax:£23.33
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A standard length version of this stainless steel, multifunctional gardening knife from Tsubame-Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, north central Japan, with a hardwood handle. Hori-hori means 'dig-dig' — these strong digging knives are used for weeding, planting, and historically for the careful extractio..
£29.50
Ex Tax:£24.58
Brand: Small items
A carbon steel, beech handled gardening knife with canvas holster. Hori-hori means dig-dig so these can be considered a kind of digging or soil knife used for weeding, planting, and historically for the careful extraction of prized bonsai specimens. Although it keeps a better edge for longer, carbon..
£34.50
Ex Tax:£28.75
Brand: Small items
Flexible and lightweight, made of heavy duty canvas, this case is the perfect holder for most secateurs and snips. It's lined with leatherette fabric, which is hand-stitched into the holster, to reinforce and strengthen it, and equipped with a loop at the top, it can also be hung for convenience. Th..
£14.50
Ex Tax:£12.08
Brand: Small items
An undyed leather sheath with belt loop and popper clasp, made especially for our Asano Mokkousho Hori Hori Gardening Knives, close to their workshops in Tsubame-Sanjo, in Niigata Prefecture, north central Japan. ..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Small items
A hand forged trowel with a 6" SK5 carbon steel head which is slightly scooped, ideal for digging, weeding, scooping and burrowing. The sharpened blade breaks through heavy soil, and the sturdy Japanese white oak oak handle gives a comfortable hold for prolonged use. Hand forged by Kudo, a small fam..
£99.00
Ex Tax:£82.50
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A double-sided forked hoe hand-forged in Catalonia by Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with manufacturers. Made of carbon steel, with a 49cm beech wood handle, secured through the eye with a steel wedge which is simply knocked tighter as required. Th..
£24.00
Ex Tax:£20.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A hand forged carbon steel hoe with a curved blade mounted on a slightly cranked neck to a beech wood handle. An ultra-tough weeder and cultivator, this sharp, angled hoe is used by drawing through the soil towards the gardener, effectively cultivating the soil, and chopping through and removing all..
£14.50
Ex Tax:£12.08
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A double sided hoe forged in Tsubame-Sanjo, a city famed for its multitude of smithies and small metalworking workshops. Made of Japanese carbon steel, with a shaped hardwood handle, secured through the eye with a steel wedge which is simply knocked tighter as required. Thought to resemble a cuttlef..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Small items
A strong cutting or grubbing mattock, forged in carbon steel by Pallares Solsona in Spain. With an 80cm wooden handle, this tool is really useful for breaking up and digging out areas of ground, even where compacted. Designed especially to help in 'grubbing' out the roots of shrub and trees fro..
£37.00
Ex Tax:£30.83
Brand: Small items
A twice bevelled, stainless steel, cranked handled, one-handed weeding hoe, made in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The blade of this hoe has an excellent sharp edge — ideal for slicing through weed roots amidst borders and vegetable beds, or shaving weeds at the surface of your yard. Chop into the soil ..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A stainless steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. With a fairly short, fine but very sharply serrated blade these could reasonably be considered a lightweight hybrid of pruning saw and classic smooth bladed sickles. Typically us..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A stainless steel bladed medium sized saw sickle from Tomita, of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. With a fairly short, fine but very sharply serrated blade, this tool can be used in multiple ways — drawn through the surface of soil to cut down weeds at the root; used higher up to mow or trim grasses; as a..
£9.50
Ex Tax:£7.92