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My Space: Koichi Furukawa’s Osaka workshop

2026-05-01T08:22:00

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The maker presents his shop located in Japan’s second largest city

I’ve been in this workshop since 2004. Before that, I’d studied for four years at Violin Koubou Cremona, a violin making school in Osaka run by Takao Iwai, who trained in Cremona. The school has since closed down, and now operates solely as a workshop. I also spent time in Italy, learning the language and working for several months at the shop of Alberto Giordano in Genoa. I visited several other workshops to deepen my understanding of making and restoration, and submitted instruments to the Cremona Triennale competition…

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