Kamibashi

Kamibashi (paper bridge) is the happy result of an English teaching career in Japan that put my husband Chris and me in direct contact with talented young Asian artists whose works we stumbled across and then immediately felt an affinity with. In 2003, with our university teaching contracts more than half finished, we decided that, despite the 5 months of paid holidays and our attachment to our life in Kyoto, a move back to the US and a career change was a good idea... and so we started working on Kamibashi. It's now March of 2010 and we've been back in the US for almost five full years, living in the countryside just outside of Asheville, NC (we're both originally from Chicago). Life consists of bird watching, riding our bikes around the gorgeous NC hills, and supplying the best shops in the US with products and artwork that caught our eye while living abroad or on recent shopping trips back to Japan and Thailand. We love what we sell and find it irresistibly fun, and it turns out we're not alone. Many thanks for your support and business - we couldn't do it without you. Whether you came here on purpose or just happened upon us by chance, I welcome you to the Kamibashi website. Stay as long as you like, and please come back often! Feel free to drop me a line as well - [email protected] - I'd be more than happy to hear from you.