“Your Chair” – a chair for a new born baby
This is where you belong
The “Your Chair” project started with a desire to celebrate the birth of a child together with the local community, expressed in an Asahikawa University graduate seminar.
Since the project started in 2006 in Higashikawa, each child born in Higashikawa has been given a hand-made chair, showing that “this is where they belong”. We hope that this chair will serve as a symbol of children growing up in a warm and protective environment.
Each year the selected chair design is made in one of Higashikawa’s workshops.
Application and delivery
- 1. Eligibility:
- Children born in Higashikawa
※ Children who are registered as residents of Higashikawa and continue to be Higashikawa residents. - 2. Application:
- Fill out the “Your Chair” application form and submit it together with the birth certificate.
- 3. Chair delivery:
- About 100 days after birth (name and birth date engraved).
- 4. Contacts:
- Higashikawa Pre-school, Child Future Division
Phone: 0166-82-3400
- “Your Chair” project
- http://www.asahikawa-u.ac.jp/page/kiminoisu_project.html
“Your Chair” designers and artists
| Year | Designer | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Yoshifumi Nakamura (Tokyo) | Takeshi Daimon |
| 2007 | Chiori Ito (Sapporo) | Shizuo Miyaji |
| 2008 | Hideki Maekawa (Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture) | Akira Mukaibo |
| 2009 | Makoto Koizumi (Tokyo) | Takeshi Daimon Kazuma Daimon |
| 2010 | Ryuji Mitani (Matsumoto) | Yuji Hattori |
| 2011 | Shinro Otake (Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture) | Shizuo Miyaji |
| 2012 | Susumu Idemitsu (Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture) | Yuji Hattori |
| 2013 | Yoshihito Kasahara (Tokyo) | Akira Mukaibo Yoshihiko Kuwahara |
| 2014 | Ichiro Shin (Nagano Prefecture) | Satoshi Kikuchi Yoshihiko Kuwahara |
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