COMPANY & PHILOSOPHY
Put the region to use
Create and put into practice a sustainable model for using local resources.
Reconnect the natural environment and human life.
With social change, the culture, skills and livelihoods of the satoyama at the foot of Mt. Tsukuba are fading, and the people of its villages are growing older. Under these conditions, the environment can no longer be kept as it has been.
Among these problems, YASABI focuses on the decline of the environment that follows when local resources stop being used. With our own ideas and teamwork, we put those resources to thorough use in ways that fit the present, halting the decline so that, as a result, the land is kept in care.
HISTORY
How YASABI began
We came to the Kamiaoyagi district through extracurricular activities at university and felt a deep bond with it. After several years of visiting from outside the prefecture, we moved here. When our terms as regional revitalization cooperators ended, each of us deepened our expertise, in forest care and sawmilling, in architecture and civil works, and in thatched-roof restoration. In 2022 we founded the association to work on the environment of Kamiaoyagi, where it all began.
- 2010–2020We visit Kamiaoyagi through Art Site Yasato, an outdoor art event run by Musashino Art University students (12 editions)
- 2017Four of us move here as Ishioka City's first regional revitalization cooperators
- 2020We begin working at the house as the Obaachan-chi Explorers
- 2022.11YASABI is founded as a general incorporated association
- 2026YASABI becomes a non-profit general incorporated association
PROFILE
Profile
| Name | YASABI General Incorporated Association (non-profit) |
|---|---|
| Founded | November 2022 |
| Activities | Spatial design, landscape design and construction, satoyama material distribution, project design |
| Representative Director | Yuki Oshige |
| Directors | Gaku Inoue, Aki Takita |
| Address | Obaachan-chi, 78 Kamiaoyagi, Ishioka, Ibaraki 315-0154, Japan |
| Contact | studio.yasabi@gmail.com |
DISCLOSURE
Public documents
We publish our articles of incorporation, and our activity report and financial statements for each year.