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About TANE JOURNEY

Like a single seed,
may a small noticing open inside you
and carry on into the next
generation’s journey.

A child's time on the farm

01 ／ STORY

A small seed, placed in your hand

A small seed reaches your hand. It sprouts inside your own journey, grows, and in time opens as a flower that is yours alone ──
that is the wish inside the name.

Health. A family’s future. The know-how of daily life.
In the middle of busy days, there are moments when we ask: is this how I want to keep going?

We live surrounded by things and by information, and more and more often we are choosing while being chosen for. In truth, every person holds the ability to choose for themselves and to make things with their own hands. We want to get that sense back from behind all the efficiency, and make daily life freer, warmer, fuller.

What we want to hand over is not a large answer or a finished shape.
It is a small seed of noticing that sprouts inside a life.

Fermentation and skincare. Ways of looking again at what we wear, eat, and live in. And the ability to live that we want to pass on to children. Through workshops and counseling, we quietly hand over a way of seeing that says “you could try this” rather than “you must do this.”

It is not about lining up facts. It is about why that option exists at all ── where it came from, what it means ── so that you can hold your own basis for choosing.

We bring knowledge that is ordered and specific, so that choices can be gentle on both a family and the land. And we hold on to the sense and the wisdom that science has not settled, but that has carried people’s lives all the same.

Miso, koji, sourdough. Ferments and condiments made at home.

Skincare that fits the life you are actually living.

Ways of living that keep step with the rhythm of the seasons.

Places to learn alongside children.

All of it is something received inside a circulation ── the way food takes the force of life from soil and sun.

The knowledge handed down, the gifts of the natural world, the ties between people: we spin them again into the shape of now, and pass them to the next hands.

The TANE you receive sprouts inside you, opens, and in time travels on to someone else as a new seed. We believe in that journey.

Harvest

02 ／ BRAND CORE

Brand core

Why we do it, how we hand it over, what we hand over.
These three sit at the centre of TANE.

WHY

People already hold the ability to choose for themselves and to make things themselves.
But in a life surrounded by convenience and information, we have let that sense go, a little at a time.
We believe that small choices, stacked up, change a body, a mind, a family ── and in time a future.
Trusting your own sense and choosing again: that becomes a TANE handed forward.

HOW

TANE JOURNEY does not say “this is what you should do.” We hand over a way of seeing: “so it can also be done like this.”
Workshops in fermentation and skincare, life counseling, places for children to learn.
Through moving your hands, feeling, and choosing, we offer the start of a small change at home.

WHAT

What we offer is not a finished answer but seeds ── of noticing, of learning, of choosing. Making miso and koji. Care that suits you and your life. Knowledge of living drawn from the wisdom of a people.
All of it is for taking back the ability to notice for yourself and grow it. The TANE in your hand sprouts in your life, and in time passes on to someone else.
That is the journey of connection and circulation we believe in.

Harvest, at a workshop

04 ／ TEAM

The people behind it

YUKI

YUKI

FOUNDER

  • Skincare counseling and product development at medical clinics in Japan and at beauty salons in Australia, followed by over 16 years of work across Japan, Korea, Australia and the United States
  • An approach that stays close to a person’s skin and daily life, and works with the whole of it ── body, mind, and the days themselves
  • Helping people make their own ferments and table staples ── miso, koji, sake, vinegar, sourdough ── and seasonal work by hand such as umeboshi
  • Not only how to make it, but how to choose the ingredients and which tools to use
  • Lifestyle counseling that looks again at what we wear, eat, and live in
  • Work that quietly hands the knowledge of earlier generations, and the force of the natural world, into the life each person is actually living
HINONE

HINONE

Integrative counselor ／ Painter

  • A background as a food coordinator and designer; married into the founding family of a major food company, and deeply familiar with the culture that sits behind food
  • A specialist in Kyusei Kigaku. Using the movement of the stars, the calendars of East and West, and feng shui, she reads the fate and fortune a person is born with, and the ties and currents handed down through a family, staying close to each client through the counseling
  • Her relatives include the sculptor Ruth Asawa, and Brian Asawa. That artistic sense and range of viewpoints underpins her work
  • Her counseling draws lines across fields of knowledge, lighting a person from two sides at once: what has been established, and what is seen by intuition
  • A compelling member of this group, who hands each visitor a new viewpoint and a seed of hope
EVAN

EVAN

Creative coordinator

  • Runs the TANE JOURNEY site and its design, moves projects along, and supports the translations ── the person who keeps the work standing
  • Tends the roots of the work and the flow of the whole, with close, careful support
  • By setting the unseen parts in order, he works so that the seeds TANE hands out reach further