About Kyo-suzume

Greeting of Kyo-suzume Culture and Tourism

理事長土居好江（どいよしえ）

2026 marks the 25th anniversary of our founding.

2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Kyo-Suzume’s founding. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you for your continued support.

From 2026 to 2030

　During the Edo period, there was a guidebook called “Kyosuzume.” It was a guidebook about daily life, different from the guidebook to famous places and historical sites. Kyo-Suzume was established in 2001 with the aim of spreading the culture of daily life close to nature and reviving the stubborn dedication of artisans into the 21st century, and it has been 25 years since then. During this time, we have experienced and learned on-site, unearthing and spreading the culture of daily life.

　Kyo-Suzume has been working to publish proposal-type guidebooks that will brighten the future of humanity, and we have sometimes found that what is said to be the latest technology was already being put into practice in the past. Kyo-Suzume hopes to examine and pass on Kyoto culture from the perspective of awareness through the holding of the Okudosan Summit, the expansion of the Okudosan Future Group, the public call for submissions for “Love Letters to Kyoto,” the holding of the Kyo-Suzume School, and the publication of various publications.

　”KOTO :The Ancient Capital” (by Yasunari Kawabata) contains many insightful observations on nature. It particularly mentions the sand at Bodai Falls in the Kitayama Nakagawa area. Six hundred years ago, a high priest who had been training in the mountains across the country collapsed in a village in what is now the Kitayama Nakagawa area of Kita Ward, Kyoto City. Thanks to the tireless nursing of the villagers, he fully recovered, and in gratitude, the priest named the waterfall in the village “Bodai Falls.” He told the villagers, “Sand has a rare power. If you polish a cedar log with this sand, your village will surely prosper.

　In the 20th century, analysis of the sand from the Kitayama polishing logs at Bodai Falls revealed that the sand contained layers of Zr (40 zirconium), SiO2 (quartz), and the existence of deposits containing Si (14 silicon) and SiC (silicon carbide). These substances are the components that make up silicon wafers, the semiconductor substrates that are in the spotlight in 21^stcentury science and technology. SiC, in particular, is used in SiC wafers for power devices that are sparking an energy revolution. The area was once a site for mining abrasive powder. Bodai Falls is a Kyoto super spot and the roots of Kyoto ventures.

　Kyo-Suzume’s first event was fieldwork in October 2001 at the Iyomata Furuiido well, the store that originated Nishiki Market. At the second Okudosan Summit in 2019, we visited a furiiido well that has been in use since 1000 AD during the Heian period, and discovered that it was a natural refrigerator that uses underground heat to preserve food. Currently, a system is being proposed that uses geothermal heat to cool refrigerators in the basement food sections of department stores, with the aim of saving energy.　From the perspective of Kyo-Suzume, we would like to edit the “21^st Century Kyo-Suzume” → “Kyo-Suzume OLD & NOW” and “Kyo-Suzume Guide”, and regularly conduct cultural tourism, educational tourism, and fieldwork to revitalize cultural genes.

　The Japanese have a sense of awe for the invisible, believing that mountains, rivers, and stones all have souls, and the spirits of the eight million gods have given shape to their sense of invisible value.

　We are at a critical point in an era where we must shift from materialistic abundance to spiritual abundance. We will work harder than ever with renewed enthusiasm. We appreciate your continued support.

Kyo-Suzume Culture and Tourism
President Yoshie Doi

Profile

Item・Year		Activity details
Career		After graduate the university ,worked for Private enterprise as operations working on editing company newsletter and then left work for wedding and nursing care for five years. I decided my life plan myself to be able to break the life. At the same time as my daughter’s middle school entrance I will be a first grader of Matsushita Seikei Juku (Kyoto Seikei Juku) and study social issues in Kyoto. I established Yuyusha-Kyosuzume at 2001 and we had over 100 course for seventeen years such as craftsman’s education how to educate their technique, field work , culture and history
Lecture	2004〜	Lecture for NHK culture center
Film	2013〜 2016	Film “Koto : Old town” Producer & Coordinator
Book many copyrighted work	2003	Publication　Japanese　Magazine
	2009	Publication　Japanese　Magazine
	2012	Publication　Japanese　Magazine
	2013	Publication　Japanese　Magazine
Award Four awards	2007	Kyoto prefecture
	2008	Kyoto city
	2008	Kyoto city
	2011	KYODO NEWS
Primary administrative committee		Administrative Tourism International exchange Landscape Committee