About

Yuki Mizuki
Kyoto-based Textile Artist & Craft Host
Helping visitors and tour organizers access Kyoto’s craft studios 

Yuki Mizuki was born and raised in Kyoto.

As a high school student, she spent time in Canada on a language exchange, an experience that opened her world and helped her become fluent in English. She later returned to Kyoto to study at an art university, where her interest in design continued to grow.

After graduating, Yuki began her career as an industrial designer, working in cities across Japan including Osaka, Yokohama, and Tokyo. Her work later took her to the United States, where she spent significant time in California and Michigan through assignments and business travel. These experiences helped her build lasting friendships and a deep familiarity with American culture.

In 2016, Yuki returned to Kyoto and started her own design company. Being back in the city led her to look more closely at Kyoto’s traditional crafts and the people who sustain them. She became deeply interested in the makers behind these traditions and felt drawn to support their work — not as an observer, but as a designer. She began helping craftspeople with websites, product development, and visual storytelling.

Through these collaborations, Yuki built close relationships with many craft studios in Kyoto. Over time, she felt a desire to create something with her own hands and began working with textile dyeing, influenced by a long-standing family connection to a local Kyoto dye workshop. 

As interest from overseas visitors grew, Yuki started supporting craft-focused visits and workshops, helping people experience these places in a thoughtful and respectful way. For nearly a decade, she has been introducing international visitors — including many from the United States — to Kyoto’s craft studios and textile traditions.

Today, she continues her own creative practice while working closely with craftspeople and visitors alike.

Through her work, Yuki hopes to help visitors experience Kyoto’s craft culture not as a tourist attraction, but as a living world shaped by people, materials, and everyday practice.

Yuki sees her role as a bridge — connecting Kyoto’s traditional crafts with an international audience through design, language, and genuine human relationships.