Satoyama Punk — A home for three months
For the next three months, I will be sharing a house in Yunotsu with artist Asuka Takagi. This formerly vacant house—an akiya—is a place where Shinya Kobayashi, founder of MUJUN and one of the people behind AKIYA AIR, spends time between Hyogo and Yunotsu.
We call it Satoyama Punk. The name captures the feeling of the space: traditional Japanese countryside living, with a playful creative spirit. Artworks are scattered throughout the house, and thoughtful details appear in unexpected places. There is always something that makes me pause and look again.
What touches me is how the house allows these different layers to coexist. Its rural character remains present, while art and design bring fresh ways of experiencing the rooms. It feels like a home shaped gradually by the people who spend time here, their interests and their imagination.
I am beginning to understand satoyama through this everyday closeness: a house within a landscape, and people finding ways to live with what is already there. Giving a vacant house a new life feels connected to that relationship—a way of caring for a place through inhabiting it.
Sharing this space with Asuka will also become part of its story. We arrive with our own habits, ideas and ways of looking. For three months, I will try to make a small everyday life here. I look forward to discovering the house slowly, noticing its details, and seeing how it shapes what we create.