Product name: Toki-no-Hako "Acorn in Sunlight" ときの箱 どんぐり (22)
Artist: Sonoko Matsuda (松田苑子)
Colours: Amber and clear with the crisp purity of transparency, evoking light filtering through golden hues
Dimension: W6.2cm, D5.5cm, H4cm
About the products:
Matsuda’s works are both objects and small spaces — vessels that hold what words cannot. Life, she says, is not always radiant. Yet within it, there are moments that gleam unmistakably. If we can hold even one of those moments close, its light will stay with us. Her glass boxes are created to protect such light — to cradle the fragile shimmer of time. Their surfaces carry faint, organic patterns inspired by nature: the texture of wind, the trace of water, the rhythm of growth. Each piece becomes a home for what is precious — a quiet place where memory, hope, and time coexist. She calls this series “Toki no Hako” — The Box of Time.
For Matsuda, what is “precious” transcends the boundaries of past, present, and future. It is not measured by value or status, but by its reflection of one’s own life. She hopes her works invite us to notice that beauty is not distant, but close — shimmering softly within reach, in the gentle unfolding of each day.
Her glass is also a mirror of what she sees as someone shaped by Japan’s natural and cultural landscape — a world where beauty resides in impermanence, and where the fleeting is cherished rather than feared. Through her art, she seeks to share that sensibility: a quiet dialogue between nature, time, and the soul.
