RESOBOX

RESOBOX is a Japanese cultural center in New York's East Village, dedicated to sharing and celebrating Japanese influence in the arts. Follow us on Instagram!!

Hands-on craft classes, exhibitions and events. www.instagram.com/resobox/ RESOBOX is a Japanese cultural center and cafe in New York dedicated to sharing and celebrating Japanese influence in the arts.

09/08/2026

You will *knot* want to miss this!

For one night only, artisans from Okayama are coming to RESOBOX to share their craft of Akō Dantsu, one of Japan's famed rugmaking techniques. Explore the history of this artform, and try it for yourself, making a brooch or keychain that you can take home and enjoy. No experience is necessary - if you're interested, we hope you'll come check out this incredible opportunity to learn from the experts!

Seats are limited, so grab yours today! https://resobox.com/event/ako-dantsu-hand-knotting-first-knot/

09/03/2026

There is a flower in Japan that shows up for about a week, right around the autumn equinox, and then disappears. It's called higanbana — literally "the equinox flower." Wednesday night, a room full of New Yorkers painted it in ink.

Sumi-e doesn't let you correct anything. One stroke, one breath, and whatever the brush did is what you keep. That's the hard part, and it's also why people leave calmer than they came in.

We run sumi-e with a new theme every month, so this one goes with September. Kohfu Furukawa(Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart), who teaches it, has taught sumi-e at the Japan Society and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and serves as president of the Japanese Artists Association of New York.

Last red spider lily session:
Saturday, September 19, 1:30 PM — $60, all materials provided, no experience needed.
RESOBOX, 91 E 3rd Street, East Village.
Same day at noon: Suminagashi, Japanese paper marbling.

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09/02/2026

Thrilled to celebrate the official Target launch of Japan's leading honey-based haircare brand, &honey, in collaboration with Michele Marie PR!

To mark the occasion, we hosted an exclusive launch event featuring an immersive Ikebana floral workshop led by Master Chiaki Torisu of the Sogetsu School, bringing the natural essence of &honey to life. Guests enjoyed the creative workshop followed by an intimate dinner celebration.

If you are in New York and stopping by Target, be sure to pick up &honey!

08/31/2026

Here's a golden opportunity!

We're thrilled to announce a new workshop at RESOBOX! In Kinpaku: Japanese Gold Leaf, students will learn about the history and artistry that goes into working with this delicate material, and then put that into practice designing and crafting their own pair of chopsticks. Not only will you gain an appreciation for this cultural tradition, but you'll get to create something that can bring a ray of light into your life whenever you use them!

The first class is September 19th, and we hope you'll join us then! https://resobox.com/class/kinpaku-gold-leaf/

08/25/2026

It's time for more kawaii kimekomi!

There's a few seats left for this Sunday's Kimekomi class, so if you've been thinking about it, or are already a fan and want to add a new friend to your collection, now's a good time to come check it out. Learn to make an a-meow-zing kitty cat or, if that doesn't appeal, the adorable bunny is another hoption!

We hope to see you Sunday for some delightful dollmaking! For more details, check out https://resobox.com/event/kimekomi-japanese-traditional-doll-making-rabbit-cat-heart/

08/18/2026

We've got an extra-sweet treat in store!

For fans of our Nerikiri Wagashi classes, or folks who are just interested in all things sugar, come check out our special Wasanbon Wagashi workshop on September 5th! Wasanbon is a premium Japanese sugar found in Shikoku, where it's refined for its fine grain and light flavor. This class will teach students how to make this fabulous sugar into tasty treats, and give them a chance to taste for themselves what makes wasanbon so delicious!

Seats are limited, so grab yours today at https://resobox.com/event/wasanbon-wagashi-japanese-pressed-sugar-confectionery-september/

08/09/2026

Bin Kuroshima, a Kyo-yuzen painter, and Akihiko Maeda, who carves danjiri — the ornate wooden festival floats of Osaka. RESOBOX serves as their agent on the U.S. side.

For the past five years our market-entry work has run almost entirely on food — flat out, 24/7 — and it has left us with a lot of hard-won knowledge. That's part of why, since last year, we've been putting real weight behind craft. RESOBOX began as an art space, so this sits close to our DNA. We know it will take a few years of investment before it returns anything, and we're going in with that understood. If nobody takes this on, these crafts die out.

The video is a moment from ICFF this May at the Javits Center — the largest contemporary furniture and interiors fair in North America. Kuroshima is putting a brush straight onto raw white silk: no underdrawing, no resist paste. The technique is called sugaki-yuzen, and the entire step where the outlines are dammed with rice paste is simply absent from it. Three days of the fair, barely getting up even for the bathroom, smiling the whole time, painting without stopping. At the next table, Maeda — also barely getting up, also smiling the whole time, also carving without stopping. Carving and painting the way the rest of us breathe. Apparently neither of them can stop. Send them to the South Pole or into orbit and we're fairly sure they'd keep making things without a minute's rest.

Both of them make freely, rather than inside a fixed form. We don't sell by lining up finished pieces and moving them as they are, so this gives us real room to work. It also fits what RESOBOX is here to do.

Our role is to win them work in America. Not to stand in the booth and interpret. Three or four projects — architecture, interiors, collaborations — are in motion off the back of ICFF. We intend to land all of them.

08/06/2026

Our first Kumiko Woodworking class sold out. Seventeen people, one Sunday afternoon, and not a single nail.

Kumiko is Japanese joinery: thin strips of wood locked into geometric patterns by the cuts themselves, no nails and no glue. The kits for this class come from Ominato Bunkichi Shoten in Kamo, Niigata, one of Japan's leading kumiko makers, who build everything from folding screens to temple interiors.

The class starts with three base patterns — asa-no-ha (h**p leaf, a wish for a child's growth), goma (sesame, for health and long life), and rindō (gentian, for sincerity). You build each one, take it apart, and build the next. Then you take those three patterns and design the inside of your own flower vase, in whatever combination you like. You go home with your vase and one of the base patterns you made.

The hardest part is not the geometry. It is force. A piece that slides in is correct; a piece you push in will break. There is a Japanese word for this — kagen, the art of using less — and it does not translate into English. And when a piece warps and stops fitting, a little mist of water brings the wood back. That got the biggest reaction of the day.

Next classes: Sunday, September 20 and Saturday, September 26, 11:00am–12:30pm at RESOBOX East Village. Photos and a short video from the first class are on the class page.

https://resobox.com/class/kumiko-woodworking/

RESOBOX also offers private and corporate workshops — kumiko, bonsai, kimekomi dolls, sumi-e, calligraphy and more — at our East Village space or at your office.
https://resobox.com/corporate-workshops/

08/03/2026

Get ready, Gundam enthusiasts!

The next Gunpla Build Night is August 12th, and we encourage builders of all stripes to come check it out. Whether you're working on an elite (miniature) giant robot, or a different plamo kit, the great folks at .nutype will be there to handle all your questions and help you reach a new level in your craft. Make progress and make friends, all at once!

You can reserve your spot at https://resobox.com/event/gunpla-gundam-model-kit-building-3/

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91 E 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY
10003

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https://resobox.com/

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