The Motoyama brothers' grandfather, Motoyama Kinra, founded Wasei Gakuin, a kimono sewing company and training school for Japanese seamstresses.
The academy expanded to the point where four schools were established in Kyushu, and my grandfather became the 13th president of the National Federation of Japanese Costume Organizations, and devoted himself to the advancement of Japanese sewing.
Later, the company was inherited by my father.
However, the number of people wearing kimonos decreased year by year, and the remuneration of subcontracted Japanese seamstresses continued to decrease, and as a result, management became difficult and Zenwa Sewing Academy was closed.
Currently, I have started a new sewing company, which my father runs by himself and outsources to his students.
For Japanese seamstresses who are doing it individually, the tailoring fee is so high that they cannot live on that alone.
In such a situation, there will be no craftsmen called Japanese seamstresses in Japan, and traditional techniques will disappear.
In order to solve this problem, I thought that I had to change from the kimono sales side first, so I decided to start a kimono brand with my brothers.
Over the course of about a year, I thought about how to create and inherit a new culture of kimono and Japanese sewing, and prepared to start a business with advice from various people.
I confronted the negative image of kimono head-on, talked about the evolution of kimono every day, looked at various things, learned from various things, learned about it, and was inspired, and continued to pursue the kimono that "Takuryu -call-" is aiming for.
And we have arrived at a path.
Taking advantage of the wisdom and technology cultivated by our predecessors, we weave modern sensibilities and trends to create new kimonos.
We will create a culture of wearing kimono as a fashion and create the future of craftsmen.