Making things since childhood, he moved from salon work into session practice across fashion and advertising. Working alongside editors, photographers, and set teams trained his sense of proportion, quality, and restraint. The camera view taught distance: how an object reads when it is not in your hands.

Curiosity guides the work. He tests a range of disciplines to understand how objects fail, where tolerances matter, and which details carry meaning. Between jobs he made headpieces in metal and fabric, then combs. The project outgrew a hobby. Design software and digital fabrication entered the process, while bench methods stayed close. Combs became a school in interlocking structure and cross-grain strength.

Along the way he found a compressed paper composite. It cuts cleanly, takes a fine edge, and develops a quiet patina without degrading. It is shaped by abrasion rather than heat.

These threads resolve in TANAKA Eyewear. A nine-year progression from experiment to sustained practice. Each frame is refined through slow iteration at the bench, made by a single artisan from start to finish, and recorded as an archive.