Japan Expo Paris 2025
July 3 – 6
What We Do
The Beauty of Margins, the Art of Eating.
Monaka Craft uses the skin and ingredients of “Monaka dane” and values the “margins” – the space created between the skin and the filling. Monaka Craft is an “eating art” that values the “blank space” created between the skin and the filling.
A natural material from Japanese rice.
The skin of the monaka is made from rice. This material is full of Japanese nature and tradition.
What is Monaka?
What is Monaka? – A Sustainable Tradition, Embracing Thought and Feeling
Monaka is the outer skin of a traditional Japanese confectionery.
Made purely from glutinous rice, this thin, delicate ‘skin’ boasts a light, crispy texture and a natural, savory aroma.
As a natural material, monaka’s edible skin is also sustainable and biodegradable, returning to the earth.
Today, it’s gaining attention for its new potential as a ‘vessel’ for embracing thoughts and feelings.
Each carefully baked monaka also carries auspicious meaning, inviting good fortune and fostering connections.
In harmony with nature, it gently embraces your wishes and thoughts.
This is the modern monaka: a way to give tangible form to such ‘richness of heart.’
Potential of Monaka
The Potential of Monaka: Eat, Decorate, Infuse with Meaning
Art to be eaten, a vessel for display.
This exhibition allows you to experience monaka as “a blank canvas to be filled.”
Take an empty monaka and fill it with your “wishes” and “thoughts,” creating a one-of-a-kind piece.
Once complete, your monaka can be enjoyed as a treat, displayed as art, or offered as a heartfelt gift.
This act of giving tangible form to your feelings is a craft experience that enriches your spirit and brings small moments of joy to your everyday life.
When your creativity fills that “empty” space, it will naturally encompass your hopes for good fortune and happiness.
About Us
Monaka Craft is an art form that uses the shells of Monaka, a traditional Japanese sweet, allowing you to eat, display, and infuse meaning into your creations. Fill an empty monaka with your wishes and thoughts to create a one-of-a-kind piece.
This offers a new craft experience where you can give tangible form to the richness of your heart and happiness, using Monaka – a natural, auspicious material that’s gentle on both your body and the planet.
Monaka: A Vessel Forged by Nature.
100% glutinous rice.
Kind to your body and the earth.
A traditional Japanese delicacy.
Monaka: Art to Play With.
Create it, display it, eat it.
Your sensibility brings Monaka art to life.
Monaka: Encapsulating Good Fortune.
To eat a monaka is to invite happiness.
Nothingness: The Essence of Beauty.
Within the empty space, a prayer is placed.
‘Ku’ (Emptiness) is a vessel for the heart.
The Aesthetics of Emptiness: Monaka and Japanese Cultural Concepts
Monaka Craft expresses the tranquility and room for imagination inherent in Japanese culture through the aesthetics of “yohaku” (expansive space) and “ku” (pure space).
The space within a monaka might appear unoccupied, yet it’s a special place designed to hold your wishes and thoughts. By mindfully engaging with this space, the act of creation transforms into a dialogue with your inner self.
Message to Parisians
Monaca Craft is a new cultural proposition that allows you to experience “Japanese traditions,” “appreciation of nature,” “joy of creation,” and “beauty of margins” in the form of edible art.
Why don’t you come to Japan Expo Paris 2025 and create “edible art” with your own hands, and feel the Japanese sense of beauty and the blessings of nature?
Scenes from a workshop using monaka shells,a traditional Japanese sweet.
Contact Us
Parc des Expositions de Villepinte
July 3 -6, 2025
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Ohno-machi, Kanazawa city, Ishikawa-ken, Japan
Monaka Craft
Japan Expo Paris 2025
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