Kyoto, Japan PM

New Japanese-style Meditation Room.
Naturally Psychedelics, Experimental Teahouse.
We are an Art Collective based in Kyoto.

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01/ Who we are

Falling into yourself
as unpretending,
obediently.

We are an Art Collective that reinterprets Japanese well-being and conducts co-creation and inquiry.
We open our Meditation Room in Kyoto, which serves as an experimental Teahouse for a limited time each month.

私たちは、日本らしい well-being を “well-down” と再解釈し、集団的創造と探究を行うアートコレクティブです。

嗜好品を通して自己と出逢う実験店舗として、拠点でもある京都西陣の瞑想室を毎月期間限定で公開しています。

02/ Perspective

A state in which even if you deviate from society, there is no mental burden and you are naturally satisfied with yourself is

「肉体的にも、精神的にも、そして社会的にも、すべてが満たされた状態」を “well-being” と定義するなら、私たちは「社会的に欠けていても、精神的に負荷がなく、自然体である自分を認知していく状態」を “well-down” と再解釈します。 肩肘張らずに、素直に、ありのままの自分に堕ちていく姿も、人の在るべきひとつの状態として提唱しています。

03/ Artworks

Hookah Pipe reinterprets
Tea Ceremony
[ 吸うお茶 / 煙小卓 ]

The world’s first Hookah (Shisha) product based on the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. The new culturally inspired experience unites two social customs centered on social gathering and sharing shisha smoking and tea ceremonies to invent a new organic smoking product that replaces smoking tobacco leaves with tea leaves.

Artwork

Hookah Pipe reinterprets
Tea Ceremony
[ 吸うお茶 / 煙小卓 ]

2022

Description

The world’s first Hookah (Shisha) product based on the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. The new culturally inspired experience unites two social customs centered on social gathering and sharing shisha smoking and tea ceremonies to invent a new organic smoking product that replaces smoking tobacco leaves with tea leaves.

“Kemuri-Kojoku” (煙小卓 : small table for smoke) is Hookah(Shisha) products based on the tea ceremony, developed to smoke tea. The first artwork “Kei-Hou” (呇朴) was presented at the “Shoseien” of the temple “Higashi Honganji” in Kyoto.

シーシャ(水タバコ)の原理を応用し、たばこ葉ではなく茶葉を使用した “お茶を吸う” という、ノンニコチンの新たな嗜好体験です。 伝統的な日本の茶道に基づいた世界初の吸うお茶道具「煙小卓」として『呇朴』を製作し、京都にある東本願寺 渉成園にて発表いたしました。

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Credit
Ochill / Kiruta Wataru, Daichi Isokawa
Product Design / Akihiro Murayama (rivvon inc.)
Photography / Eichi Tano
Publications
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Listen to the Tobacco [ 吸わない煙草 / 福龍庵 ]

The Japanese new meditative experience “Listen to the Tobacco” announced at the 100-year-old historical concert hall in Maruyama Park, the oldest park in Kyoto. It is a smoking experience based on the tea ceremony, where you can enjoy the fragrance of tobacco leaves without inhaling them.

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Listen to the Tobacco [ 吸わない煙草 / 福龍庵 ]

2023

Description

The Japanese new meditative experience “Listen to the Tobacco” announced at the 100-year-old historical concert hall in Maruyama Park, the oldest park in Kyoto.

It is a smoking experience based on the tea ceremony, where you can enjoy the fragrance of tobacco leaves without inhaling them.
“Fukuryu-Ann” (福龍庵) as a new smoking room and tearoom in a historical building and created it in the space. We overturned people's preconceptions about smoking and sublimated it into a new meditative experience. On that day, everyone from non-smokers to children enjoyed the fragrance of burning tobacco leaves.

煙草はほとんどの場合において "吸うもの" だと認識されがちですが、焚くという所作のもと煙を目で楽しむ嗜好性があるのではないかという仮説から生まれました。 "吸わない煙草" のもつ公共性、言い換えれば "吸う煙草" の私事性が明らかとなり、来場者からは私たちも予想しなかった反響をいただきました。 京都市内で最も古い歴史を持つ公園「京都市円山公園」、そこにある約100年の歴史を持つ「音楽堂」という非常に公共性の高い場所で、非喫煙者や子どもまでもが集い、煙草の香りを嗜み、ゆらぎを眺めながらその身に浴びていました。

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Credit
Ochill / Kiruta Wataru, Daichi Isokawa, Akihiro Murayama, Sakurako Matsumura
Photography / Eichi Tano

Tea Smoking Ceremony
at Tokyo Marriott Hotel
[ 吸うお茶会 at 有時庵 ]

At the Gotenyama Sakura Tea Party held at the private TeaRoom "Ujian," designed by architect Arata Isozaki, located in the Gotenyama Trust City where Tokyo Marriott Hotel is situated, we hosted a “Tea Smoking Ceremony.”

Artwork

Tea Smoking Ceremony
at Tokyo Marriott Hotel
[ 吸うお茶会 at 有時庵 ]

2023

Description

At the Gotenyama Sakura Tea Party held at the private TeaRoom “Ujian,” designed by architect Arata Isozaki, located in the Gotenyama Trust City where Tokyo Marriott Hotel is situated, we hosted a “Tea Smoking Ceremony.” We introduced a new “Tea Smoking” blended with cherry blossom leaves and presented ‘Kei-Hou Muji’ (呇朴 - 無時) as a new ‘Kemiru-Kojoku’ (煙小卓:a wooden smoking table).

We received over 100 applications just a few days after recruitment started for the 12 available spots, and we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who participated in the event and applied for it.

東京マリオットホテルが所在する御殿山トラストシティにある、建築家 磯崎新氏 設計の非公開茶室「有時庵」で行われた御殿山さくら茶会にお呼ばれし、 "吸うお茶会" を行いました。 さくら葉をブレンドした新たな『吸うお茶』及び、新たな「煙小卓」として『呇朴 - 無時』を発表いたしました。 合計12名の参加枠に対し、募集開始から数日で100名以上のご応募が集まったとの事で、お越しいただいた皆様をはじめご応募いただいた多くの皆様、ありがとうございました。

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Credit
Ochill / Kiruta Wataru, Daichi Isokawa, Akihiro Murayama, Sakurako Matsumura
Photography / Eichi Tano
Special Thanks / Ryo Iwamoto (TeaRoom inc.)

04/ Place

Advance reservation is required to use Ochill Kyoto.

私たちが拠点としている京都の瞑想室は、毎月期間限定公開しています。
ご利用には事前予約が必要です。

Location

54-1 Shimoishibashiminamihancho
Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 602-8239

Social

@Ochill_jp

Future wellness is “well-down.”