Welcome to KoLe Academy!
This is the place where you can learn about Shikoku’s heritage crafts and how to integrate them into your life to jazz it up a bit more.
| About KoLe Academy | Main Curriculum Activities | Extracurricular Activities | Events | Questions |
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KoLe Academy is starting soon.
From Jan 11th, one video per month will be released for your learning. PDF download will usually be available before the video launch.
Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel :)!
KoLe Academy Webpage is launched!
Bookmark this Page for your easy return!
You will find all handouts and extracurricular activities are put in one place.
The link to the question form made explicitly for learners at KoLe Academy is on this page!
About KoLe Academy
Released: 2025 Jan 11th, 5:00 am (JSP)
KoLe Academy is designed to empower handicraft and artisanship enthusiasts outside Japan—whether or not they have a design background—to become Shikoku artisan-made product designers. Learn how to create bespoke items for personal use, gifting, selling, or offering as a service, all rooted in authentic heritage craft knowledge.
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on the notification so that you can catch the latest lecture uploaded.
- Watch short lecture videos: I recommend you watch them in order to make the most of the course.
- Try doing the exercise given at the end of the videos if provided.
- Free downloads are available here.
Main Curriculum Activities
| Traditional Crafts 101 | Traditional Crafts 201 |
Traditional Crafts 101
| Orientation | 101 A1 | 101 A2 | 101 A3 | 101 A4 |
Traditional Crafts 101 Orientation
Released: 2025 Feb 8th, 5:00 am (JSP)
Find out what to expect from this foundation course!
Traditional Crafts 101-A1
Traditional Crafts 101-A2
Traditional Crafts 201
Coming After Traditional Crafts 101 is completed.
Extracurricular Activities
Download the 100 prompts that inspire you for your next artisan-made project!
Watch our YouTube series that tells you how our collaborating artisan came up with current modern products! It will give you a hint.
Events
No Events Scheduled Currently :(…
What kind of events would be fun/useful for you? Drop your opinion on the question :).
Questions
If you have any questions, please send Satoko an email, leave them in the comment section of each relative video, or send them via this form here.