Bed Throw Yūgen - AIZOME (North America) - AIZOME

Bed Throw Yūgen

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Bed Throw Yūgen - AIZOME (North America) - AIZOME

幽玄ベッドスロー

Bed Throw Yūgen

$799.00
Sale price  $799.00 Regular price 

Experience the mystery, elegance, and subtle timelessness of Japan‘s indigo dyeing tradition, hand-dyed by Cozo Cazama, one of the few remaining aizome dye masters in Japan. 

Each masterpiece lives as a vivified, sensorial experience of Yūgen (幽玄) – the sense of profound grace associated with the natural world and with the mysterious exchange of energy that manifests beauty from the dust of the universe.

Made-to-order item,  ready to ship after 4-6 weeks.

Sleep trial not available on this product.

Weight: 3 lbs
Size: 78"x90"

Material: 100% organic cotton
Certification: OEKO-Tex Standard 100, BSCI, ISO9001
Origin of dye: Japan
Dyer: Cozo Cazama

Color
Close detail of hand-dyed indigo cloth, showing natural variation in tone.
Close detail of hand-dyed indigo cloth, showing natural variation in tone.
Close detail of hand-dyed indigo cloth, showing natural variation in tone.
Close detail of hand-dyed indigo cloth, showing natural variation in tone.

侘寂 - Wabi-sabi

The Beauty of the Imperfect

Your piece will not match the photograph, the one before it or the one after it. In wabi-sabi, this is not a flaw to be corrected - it's the proof that a person, not a machine, made the thing you own.

Two more ideas travel with it, and Cozo taught us both: mottainai, to waste nothing and omoiyari, to make with care for whoever receives it.

Cozo Cazama at his indigo vats in Japan.

The Last of a Four-Hundred-Year Line

Cozo Cazama is one of the few remaining aizome masters in Japan, heir to an unbroken lineage four centuries deep. He has given decades of his life to a dye most of the world replaced with petroleum.

He is not a name we licensed. He is the reason AIZOME exists. When our founders came to Japan, he took them under his wing and taught them what synthetic indigo had cost us - and what the plant could give back. Everything we make traces to that vat.

"To master the art of aizome, one is required to observe and learn from nature, and also to respect nature's ways… Feeling the identity of being a part of the natural world, this is what aizome is to me."

- Cozo Cazama

Of everything he makes for us, one piece asks the most of him.

A Dye That Is Alive

Every artisan piece is dyed with sukumo: indigo leaves grown, harvested, and slowly composted for nearly a year before the first thread touches them. The result is not a chemical bath but a living vat - fermenting, breathing, tended every day.

  1. Seed

    Indigo is sown in spring soil.

  2. Leaf

    Months later, the leaves are harvested by hand.

  3. Ferment

    The leaves compost slowly into sukumo - the living dye.

  4. Vat

    The vat is built and tended daily, like something alive.

  5. Aizome

    Each piece is dyed by hand, deepening with every dip.

Cozo works by hand, one piece at a time. AIZOME ULTRA™ brings his craft to scale. Learn more about our patent-pending ultrasonic plant-dyeing process for everyday, affordable textiles.

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