ISU-WORKS

Yamagami Mokko is a woodworking and wooden furniture manufacturing company founded in 1950 and based in the town of Tsubetsu in Hokkaido’s Okhotsk region. The company carries on a tradition of manufacturing fusing trusty manual skills passed down over three generations with the latest CNC technology. Despite the workshop’s relatively small size, it boasts three of Japan’s largest five-axis CNC machines and seven general-purpose NC machines. Yamagami Mokko adopted its first NC machine about 40 years ago, and uses the technical acumen accrued over that time to machine wide-ranging components and products featuring elements including complex curved surfaces and high-precision finishes. With decades of experience and knowhow, Yamagami Mokko’s flexible manufacturing spans from small-lot custom furniture to large-scale projects, always to exacting levels of quality. Their in-house brand ISU-WORKS was launched in 2011 and has established sales channels within Japan and beyond. Yamagami Mokko received a permanent booth at the Asahikawa Design Center (ADC) in 2025 and has recently collaborated with the Forest Products Research Institute in Asahikawa and Hokkaido University to explore new possibilities for local materials through Japanese larch densification technology. The outlook for this initiative includes plans to advance towards practical application in municipalities across Hokkaido. Through its frontline furniture making, Yamagami Mokko carves out forms that embody beautiful, sustainable ways of living.