Maruwaka Hirotoshi

Representative director, product producer, and project planner at Maruwakaya Co., Ltd. Born in Tokyo in 1979. After working in apparel and other businesses, founded Maruwakaya in 2010. He infuses Japan’s traditional crafts and cutting-edge industrial technologies alike with a modern sensibility, rejuvenating them and suggesting new possibilities. In 2014, Maruwaka opened Nakaniwa, a gallery and store, in Paris. In Spring 2017, he opened the Gen Gen An teashop in Shibuya, Tokyo, aiming to promote a new kind of Japanese tea culture to the world at large.
Gen Gen An: http://www.gengenan.net/　Maruwakaya: http://maru-waka.com/