Born in 1991 in Nibutani, Biratori, Saru District, Hokkaido.
She grew up watching the weaving of her grandmother, Kaizawa Yukiko, a craftsperson of attus weaving.
Since childhood, alongside Ainu cuisine, she has learned how to make threads for attus weaving, as well as bracelets made from attus materials and kaeka.
When her mother passed away in the first year of Reiwa, she decided to carry on this traditional craft from her grandmother, learning attus weaving directly at her side.

Her main works include obi (hassun-obi) for Japanese kimono made with attus, bracelets, necklaces, and straps braided from ohyo thread for kaeka.
Along with weaving, she also learns plant-dyeing of attus threads from Yukiko Kaizawa.
Together with her grandmother, she collects various plants and trees from the mountains to use as dye materials.
For each type of plant, the process from gathering to dyeing takes a whole day, requiring both time and patience.

What she values most in her work is dyeing natural materials with natural dyes.
She never uses chemical dyes.
Attus dyed with natural materials develops a deeper, richer color as time passes, which is part of its charm.
She uses a variety of dyeing materials such as walnut, mugwort, sappanwood, and logwood.
Since attus is made from tree bark, its dyeing process differs from that of cotton, requiring experimentation with each material.
She constantly explores new possibilities by combining mordants with wild plants close at hand, even ones that are unnamed and that her grandmother has never used for dyeing.

Among the traditional crafts of Nibutani is “Nibutani attus.”
She is learning this heritage from her grandmother and hopes to preserve and carry it forward in Nibutani.

Member of the Nibutani Folk Craft Association.

Yukiko no Mise (Yukiko’s Shop)
76-7 Nibutani, Biratori-cho, Saru-gun, Hokkaido 055-0101, Japan
TEL (Domestic): 090-6217-8449（katak×bee）
TEL (International): +81-90-6217-8449（katak×bee）