Nashinokisya builds small timber structures by hand across Europe — tea houses, garden pavilions, saunas, bathhouses, and quiet retreats. The work draws on traditional Japanese carpentry, learned through years of study and practice in Japan, and carried into European landscapes where it finds new ground.

At the heart of every project is the concept of 庵 (An): the Japanese tradition of the small retreat, stripped to its essentials, oriented toward stillness. It is not a building type but a way of thinking about space — one that asks what a place truly needs, and removes everything else. A sauna in Norway, a sento in Stockholm, a tea house in Kyoto or in France — each is a different answer to the same question.

The work is done slowly, with hand tools and traditional joinery, by a small constellation of skilled craftspeople — carpenters, makers, specialists in their materials — assembled around the particular demands of each structure. No two buildings are the same, because no two sites, no two clients, and no two moments are the same.

Nashinokisya exists to explore what it means to truly dwell quietly, beautifully, and consciously.