Since 1903, the Soejima kiln creates beautiful traditional art glassware through the 'Jappan' blowing technique, as well as modern-style craft products through the 'Chuu' blowing technique, shaping the glass mid-air without using molds.

They combine tradition with the pursuit of carrying old glassmaking techniques into future generations, creating new designs and brining colors to the world of glass.

Using the traditional method of hand blowing glass, the craftsman handles molten glass with metal tools and shapes it into a hollow form. After this, he blows air through a long glass tube into the still soft glass, and with that creates its size and shape. This requires considerable expertise and is sadly a declining skill. Glass craftsmen have to show profound artisanal feeling and knowledge of glass, as well as manual dexterity and considerable nerves.

Because of this, and waves of mechanization and automation, not only the very special 'Jappan' blowing technique, using two long thin tubes to mold glass mid-air, but all glass blowing techniques altogether have been in decline. The Soejima Glassware kiln sees the immense value in this tradition, and keeps working in preserving it for future generations.