

“Tokyo Kousaten”
Interviews of Tokyo professionals
While diligently upholding the past’s ideas and traditions, from art to music to food and infinitely more, Tokyo is a city that never stops pushing forward to embrace the latest technological advances. “Tokyo Kousaten”, a new television program from TV TOKYO Corporation that showcases those parts of Japan’s capital where past and present intersect in uniquely dazzling and balanced ways as the program title "kousaten" which means "crossroads", suggests. Check the TokyoTokyo website each month for English-language versions of “Tokyo Kousaten” videos.
Photographer
Masataka Nakano

Folding screen artisan
Koto Kataoka

Miniature doll house artist
Yukio Kawai

Atelierista
Ayaka Tsuda

Pickled plum producer
Junpei Takeuchi

Signboard Engraving
Tomoo Sakai

Installation art
Emmanuelle Moureaux

Somegami
Kazuo Kobayashi

Leather
Michiko Matsuda

Bunko leather
Annamaria Bara

Paper-cutting art
Takashi Koshiishi

Edo Karakami
Yukio Koizumi

Motion actor
Hideki Sugiguchi

Tateshi
Hiroaki Kawaguchi

Knitting
Mitsuharu Hirose

Temari balls
Yuka Sato

Electric Guitar
Yuta Ishikawa

Tokyo Shamisen
Takahito Watanabe

Japanese paper confections
Tetsuya Nagata

Tea ceremony confection
Yuji Nagano

Socks
Arisa Kakusue

Tabi
Shigeo Fukushima

Nail art
Hiromi Hino

Finger puppet
Mitsuaki Tsuyuki

Bamboo art
Chikuunai Tanabe

Bamboo craft
Suikou Buseki

Ball-jointed dolls
Mari Shimizu

Tokyo Kokeshi dolls
Kuninobu Okura

Drone show
Komei Sasaki

Fireworks
Akiko Amano

Eraser stamp
Saki Katayama

Fountain pen
Shinichi Yoshida

Contemporary artist
Arisa Chinen

Kumihimo
Ryuta Fukuda

Whistling
Kimiko Wakiyama

Grass flute
Kazuo Nishizawa

Wire art
Manabu Ogawa

Edo-style bamboo blinds
Kotaro Tanaka

Ohagi
Hiroki Ogawa

Dumpling
Shuichi Sawano

Beatboxer
SO-SO

Ocarina
Sojiro



