Every year, we hold an event in which participants can experience kurizome (plant dyeing) using Natural Dye^­TM to help support the recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. In 2019, the event was held on September 20, and Saturday, September 21. 2019 marked the seventh year of this event, which is held at Kaigan Park Adventure Field and the Takasago Civic Center in Sendai City.
The children who participated in the event put a tremendous amount of effort into creating their own tie-dye patterns using marbles, disposable chopsticks, and rubber bands, while imagining what kinds of patterns would appear in the finished product. The event was a great success, even attracting newspaper coverage, and the finished creations will be exhibited at a local festival. The children were very happy to see the results of their efforts.

Held every year since 2013 to support the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Natural Dye^TM workshop event was held on September 21 and 22 in 2018. This year saw the event being held at Kaigan Park Adventure Field and the Takasago Civic Center. Elementary school students and their families enjoyed the experience of hand-dyeing using dyes made from spinach (yellowish green), carrots (orange), and blueberries (light purple).

On September 16, 2017, we held a Natural Dye^TM workshop event in which children hand-dyed environment-friendly reusable bags at the Takasago Children’s Center in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. The year 2017 marked the fifth consecutive year of the event being held in Sendai City as part of our CSR activities.

On September 3, 2016, we held an event for children to hand-dye drawstring bags using Natural Dye^TM at the Takasago Children’s Center in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.
For the 2016 event, we used dyes made from sunflowers, lemongrass, and gardenia seeds.

On October 17, 2015, we held an event for children and their parents to hand-dye drawstring bags using Natural Dye^TM at the Shichigo Civic Center in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.
Vibrant, bright colors loved by children was the theme for the event, and dyes made from sunflowers (yellow), cherries (red), and gardenia seeds were used.

On Friday, August 22, 2014, we held an event at Arahama Elementary School in Sendai City,Miyagi Prefecture, to give attendees the experience of hand-dyeing environment-friendly reusable bags using dyes made from carrots, spinach, and blueberries.

Arahama Elementary School was severely damaged by the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and thereafter became a memorial museum. As a result, its students were relocated to the Higashi-Miyagino Elementary School in the same municipality, where they continue their schooling. As no new students have been enrolled since the disaster, only 4th, 5th, and 6th graders attend the school.

Approximately 80 children and parents attended the event. At the end of the workshop, each participant proudly held up their one-of-a-kind hand-dyed bag and smiled for a commemorative photo.

On November 9, 2013, we held an event for residents of Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, living in temporary accommodation to experience dyeing bandanas using Natural Dye^TM—our proprietary dyeing method.

With the help of the Sendai Volunteer Center, we prepared green, brown, beige, pink, and yellow dyes prior to the event by collecting Japanese zelkova leaves, which are the symbol of Sendai City; rice straw, which was harvested from the disaster-damaged rice fields for the first time in 2013; and flowers that were blooming around temporary residences. The residents enjoyed making one-of-a-kind bandanas with dyes closely connected with Sendai City.