KI Arts | Traditional Japanese Carpentry | Interiors

A typical Japanese-style room has wooden ceilings, tatami-mat floors, Japanese “mud” plaster walls, and sliding shoji screens. This space can multi-function as a living room, dining room, bedroom, meditation room. Hiroshi Sakaguchi also builds more specialized interiors such as tearooms, offices, kitchens, bathing rooms, and entrance rooms. Shoji screens for room separation and window shades are part of the construction as are doors and sliding glass windows. They can also be ordered separately from an interior construction. For general information about design, Japanese carpentry technique and construction procedures, commissioning an interior, and pricing, go to Process and Pricing. For further information, Contact Ki Arts.

Testimonial:

"When I walk into the Japanese room Sakaguchi-san constructed in my home, I get in touch with my roots and feel transformed. I think Hiroshi Sakaguchi is a living treasure of Japanese classic carpentry. I want people to realize how valuable and precious his skill is."

— Hideko Metaxas, Larkspur, CA

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“Carpenters in Japan only build the structure. Here, in the United States, I must do everything—design and build the structure, plaster walls, construct doors, windows, and shoji screens. Like an American pioneer, I sometimes even make the furniture and hand-forge the hardware.”

Testimonial:

"When I walk into the Japanese room Sakaguchi-san constructed in my home, I get in touch with my roots and feel transformed. I think Hiroshi Sakaguchi is a living treasure of Japanese classic carpentry. I want people to realize how valuable and precious his skill is."

“Carpenters in Japan only build the structure.
Here, in the United States, I must do everything—design and build the structure, plaster walls, construct doors, windows, and shoji screens. Like an American pioneer, I sometimes even make the furniture and hand-forge the hardware.”