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What you can
ask us for.

Engraved masu gifts, wooden wall modules, overseas promotion, photography, multilingual websites and AI. Work for companies, local governments, shops and brands — all built around Japanese culture.

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Masu  /  Interior  /  Overseas  /  Photo  /  Web & AI
Introducing FOMUS masu at an event abroad

Introducing the masu at an event abroad

What You Can Ask Us

Five areas of work

Each one is about taking Japanese culture and putting it in a form that travels. Pricing is quoted per project. It is fine to come to us before anything is decided.

01 — Corporate Masu

Engraved masu, gifts and corporate novelties

Anniversary gifts, corporate novelties, wedding favours, opening celebrations, and cups for restaurant service. We engrave your name or logo into Japanese hinoki cypress masu and build the spec around how it will be used. From one piece, ten for companies. Before you order, we send a quote and a preview of the finished engraving, free.

  • Anniversary gifts
  • Logo novelties
  • Wedding favours
  • Restaurant use
  • Gifts for abroad
MASU-STORE for companies ↗
A masu engraved with a Choju-giga illustration

02 — Architectural

Masu walls and wooden interiors (FOMUS ARCHITECTURAL)

One-go masu supplied as modules for walls, partitions, columns and fixtures — for hotel lobbies, restaurants, office entrances and retail interiors. Available piece by piece or as assembled panels. Glass coating and flame-retardant treatment can be arranged.

  • Retail interiors
  • Japandi wall
  • Hotel lobbies
  • Partitions
  • Display fixtures
See the masu wall ›
A wall built from roughly 300 masu at a gallery on Sagishima island

03 — Overseas

Overseas promotion support

We carry Japanese sake, crafts and regional products to embassy receptions, Japanese cultural events and local communities abroad, put them in people's hands, and bring back photos, video and honest reactions — down to labels and copy rewritten for the local language.

  • Sake abroad
  • Craft distribution
  • Regional products
  • On-site reports
  • Multilingual labels
See overseas support ›
FOMUS booth at the Embassy of Japan in Saudi Arabia

04 — Photography

Photography (events, products, overseas)

Event records, product and brand photography, and shoots abroad. Twenty countries of practice at asking strangers, in languages we do not speak, if we may take their picture. Files come back finished and ready for your site and social channels.

  • Event photography
  • Product photography
  • Brand imagery
  • Overseas shoots
  • On-location
See photography ›
Portraits taken with a masu around the world

05 — Web & AI

Multilingual websites, AI and automation

Multilingual websites, AI chatbots for shops and companies, and automation for work now done by hand. We build and run every one of our own services in house, so what you get is working software, not a deck.

  • Multilingual sites
  • AI chatbots
  • Automation
  • E-commerce
  • Regional DX
See web & AI ›
Web and AI work

Projects often cross several of these. Make a product for an overseas market, test it on the ground, then build the multilingual site around it — that whole line can run through one team.

Why FOMUS

Tested on the ground, abroad

None of this comes from a desk. It comes from carrying the work to the place and watching what people did with it.

29
countries worked in (since 2023)
3
Japanese embassies exhibited at
~300
masu in the Sagishima gallery wall (2025)
More about FOMUS
How It Works

How it works

  1. STEP 01

    Get in touch

    Tell us what you want to do and what you are unsure about. Rough is fine.

  2. STEP 02

    Sort out the goal

    We work out together what it is for, who it is for, and by when.

  3. STEP 03

    Proposal and quote

    We propose an approach and a price. Nothing is charged up to this point.

  4. STEP 04

    Make and deliver

    We build it, run it, and hand over the work and the record of it.

FAQ

Questions

QHow much does it cost?

It depends on the work, so we quote per project, and quoting is free. Engraved masu have a published floor: orders start at 4,400 yen including tax and design.

QWill you take small jobs?

Yes. One masu, a half-day shoot, or a single web page.

QWhere do you work?

Masu production, web and AI work happen anywhere. For photography we are based in Japan and travel, including abroad, depending on the job.

QWe have not decided what to make yet.

That is the most common way people arrive. "We want to go abroad but do not know where to start" is a fine place to begin.

QCan we pay by invoice?

Yes, invoicing is available for companies.

Contact

Tell us what you need

Early is fine. Tell us what you want to happen and we will propose how to get there.