A Japanese shiitake company established in 1935.
TAKEHISA CO., LTD. is based in Chikugo City, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. For generations, TAKEHISA has worked with dried shiitake through selection, wholesale, retail-related product proposals, and business-use applications. Today, TAKEHISA continues to create new value for Japanese shiitake by connecting traditional dashi culture, experienced selection, and practical product development for modern food markets.
| Company | TAKEHISA CO., LTD. |
|---|---|
| Representative | Kazuo Takehisa, President |
| Founded | 1935 |
| Location | 1529 Nagahama, Chikugo City, Fukuoka 833-0005, Japan |
| Telephone | +81-942-53-2626 |
| Fax | +81-942-53-2154 |
| English inquiries | keiko.takehisa@takehisa-shiitake.com |
| Business | Wholesale and sales of dried shiitake |
TAKEHISA CO., LTD. is approaching its hundredth year.
We have spent that time delivering dried shiitake and staying close to the way Japan eats. The record is long: a Chinese pharmacological text from around the year 500 already describes shiitake as strengthening and restorative, and in Japan the mushroom is said to have arrived around 774 with Kukai on his return from Tang China. The first documentary appearance of dried shiitake is 1237, in Dogen's Tenzo Kyokun. An ingredient that has carried flavor across that many centuries is one we think has to be handed on, and we keep working out how to explain what makes it worth the trouble. One answer has been miso soup. Talking to shoppers, we hear real anxiety about children's health and about how much of that traces back to diet, so at our own store we serve a miso soup built on shiitake, kelp, dried sardine, and bonito, cooked by staff every day. We would like a single bowl to be enough to start someone thinking about food and health. We run cooking classes for the same reason. Times change; the nutrition and the flavor of dried shiitake do not. Communicating that, to trading partners and to the people who eat it, is the work we understand as ours.
Kazuo Takehisa, President, TAKEHISA CO., LTD.
Alongside the wholesale business, TAKEHISA runs its own shiitake store and kitchen in Chikugo, which is where the company hears directly from the people who cook with its product.
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