On a hot summer day in 2017, our atelier opened in a rented room in an apartment across from the French Embassy in Hiroo. When the store first opened, it was a Japanese painting class for foreign customers in English-speaking and French-speaking countries. From the beginning, I mainly taught Japanese painting as an experience in Japan, including tourist information, for several customers.

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However, at the beginning of 2020, the pandemic that hit the world made it impossible to welcome customers from overseas, and suddenly we changed our direction to a classroom for Japanese people.

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​ When creating a homepage for Japanese people, I wanted to welcome people who want to create something with high aesthetic sensitivity and a sense of tension.

It was not a classroom that accommodates a large number of people, but a classroom where the instructor politely welcomes customers as if they were serving tea to several people at the tea ceremony.

That policy hasn't changed.

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It has been more than 20 years since I started painting, and more than 10 years have passed since I started teaching. In 2022, we opened a new classroom in Shinyurigaoka and are still exploring new possibilities.

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We listen to the stories of the students who come every day, always keep the sensitivity high, think about what is required, and strive to make the classroom better.

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There was a lot of help and interaction with customers before the atelier came to its current form. As a result, I think that the current classroom was completed. I don't think I could reach such a shape by myself.

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With that in mind, I would like to give back to everyone the skills I have cultivated for those who are coming and those who are currently attending.

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  ATELIER HAYATO NAKAZAWA

Representative Hayato Nakazawa