Kamiyama MageWappa

 

🌿 For the Earth-lovers & Tradition-seekers 🌿

Beautiful mountain scenery of the town where the workshop is located

✨ Magewappa Magic: Dive into a timeless tradition with our lunch box, handcrafted purely with nature's gifts. Absolutely no synthetics.

🌲 A Legacy Reborn: Revel in a 1000-year-old art, now a rare gem with just a handful of artisans in Japan preserving this craft.

💚 Crafting with Purpose: We believe in beauty beyond form - a creation that returns to Earth as naturally as it came.

  1. Simple: 🪵 Traditional Japanese woodworking at its finest.
  2. Organic: 🌾 Pure, untainted materials from nature.
  3. Sustainable: 🔄 Once it's journey concludes, send it back. We promise a full circle, zero-waste return to Mother Earth.

Our Product List

🌲Kamiyama MageWappa - Where Tradition Meets Sustainability

Studio Kurara

Artist/Owner Ms.Nao Kondo

Nao Kondo's mug shot

From the Forest, Back to the Earth

  • Born from the mountains, becoming a gentle companion in your daily life, and eventually returning to nature.
  • Gentle at every moment—crafting, using, and letting go—placing no burden on the earth or the people who touch it.
  • Reconnecting with nature through the warmth of everyday tools.

Believing that this is the kind of craftsmanship the world needs today, I create each Magewappa bento box entirely with natural materials.


🏡 Our Workshop

Workshop exterior

📍 Address

190-1 Tani, Jinryo, Kamiyama-cho, Myozai-gun, Tokushima 771-3311, Japan

🗺️ Map

📺 Media Features

Television

Shikoku Broadcasting — "Gojikaru"

Aired May 7, 2025 — Studio appearance

NHK Tokushima — "Toku 6 Tokushima" / Today's Food Spotlight

Kamiyama Magewappa was featured over two consecutive weeks.

  • Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 18:10 — "Wait, you make it from scratch? A fully Tokushima-made bento"
  • Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 18:10 — "The big day! A fully Tokushima-made bento"

Radio

NHK Radio

Aired February 14, 2024

Theme: "Fly Overseas! A Magewappa Bento Box Made from Local Materials"

I was interviewed in depth and ended up talking about all sorts of things — but Ms. Tomomi Taura put it all together so clearly and beautifully that I was genuinely surprised when I heard the broadcast. Thank you so much for your thoughtful coverage.

Magazine

ANA In-flight Magazine "Tsubasa no Okoku" (Wings of the Kingdom) — April 2023, No. 646, p. 49

This has always been one of my favorite magazines — I used to dream about being featured in it someday. I'm truly thrilled that it became a reality. If you're flying with ANA, please look for the "Obento no Jikan" (Bento Time) corner!

"Tsubasa no Okoku" is also available to read online.