Sugitasekizaiten began in Okazaki city in 1828.
Okazaki is the one of the three biggest cities of stone material in Japan.
There were more than 400 stone material companies 40 years ago in this city.
Lately decreased demand for stone lanterns has caused many of these companies to closedown.
The rest of these companies stopped making stone lanterns and switched to sell gravestones.
Japan suddenly lost skillful stonemasons.
Meanwhile we have been making real Japanese garden stone products in the traditional way since we started our company almost 200 years ago.
We still make effort to improve quality of product even now.
We will continue to making Japanese garden stone product and are trying to keep the stone culture and tradition of Okazaki.