Collection: amarillo

Born in Sapporo in 1976. During her childhood, she learned hand sewing and knitting from her grandmother. After majoring in English in college because she wanted to go abroad, at the age of 24, she started working at the traveling general store "ocho". She became fascinated with leather craft after making her own leather bag using leatherworking tools given to her by the store owner and a book called "LEATHER BRAIDING". She was greatly influenced by the handiwork of indigenous peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, and America when she visited them for purchases, and spent the next seven years creating original leather items for "ocho". After getting married and giving birth, she started her own brand "amarillo" in 2012. Her products are characterized by handmade "knitting" and "stitching" using leather strings cut with scissors from a single piece of leather, and she is focusing on creating works using Ezo deer leather to utilize the rapidly increasing number of Ezo deer hunted in Hokkaido in recent years.

In recent years, the number of wild deer "Ezo deer" has increased throughout Hokkaido, causing serious problems between humans and animals, such as damage to forests, pastures, and fields, and accidents with cars and trains. Therefore, in order to control the population, they are captured as harmful birds and animals. After capture, Ezo deer are used for meat, but the current situation is that their hides (raw hides) and antlers are hardly used. After hunting, they are left in the forest as waste, which leads to problems such as the emergence of brown bears and unpleasant odors from decomposition. amarillo actively uses Ezo deer leather because we do not want to waste the lives that were sacrificed for humans, but rather want to use them by regenerating them into new works. In addition to Ezo Products, which is consistently carried out in Hokkaido from hunting to butchering, obtaining raw hides, salting, and tanning, we are involved in the production of original leather that is committed to full tanning. Like imported farmed deer leather, Ezo deer leather has the appeal of being light, soft, and resistant to water and friction, but because it is a wild animal, there are large individual differences in scratches, holes, and thickness, and each piece has a different color and texture. We incorporate these individual differences into our designs as individuality, and all of our products are handmade using our distinctive "knitting" and "stitching" techniques.