Apprentice × Strengths: Creativity & Ideation
For Those Strong in Creativity & Ideation
This collection features jobs that may suit those who are relatively comfortable generating new ideas and concepts.
Creativity holds value not only in artistic fields but in all kinds of work. Both small ideas that improve existing methods and entirely new concepts are expressions of creativity. Additionally, some deepen their thinking alone, while others develop ideas through dialogue with others.
The jobs introduced here tend to offer more opportunities to utilize new ideas. Explore how your creativity can flourish.
111 jobs found.
Sowa-shoku (Magemono Craftsman)
Traditional craftsperson who steams wood to soften it, bends it to assemble bentwood products such as containers and bento boxes, and finishes them with lacquer coating, etc.
Percussion Instrument Maker
A specialist occupation that uses materials such as wood, metal, and leather to design, manufacture, and adjust percussion instruments like marimbas, xylophones, timpani, and drums.
Bamboo Craft Worker
A profession that uses bamboo as material to produce daily necessities and decorative items using techniques such as splitting bamboo, weaving, and bending processing.
Paper Lantern (Chōchin) Painter
A traditional artisan who hand-draws decorative pictures or letters on lanterns using materials like washi paper and bamboo frames.
Lantern lettering painter
Artisan who draws letters and designs on traditional Japanese lanterns using a brush.
Tsuishu Manufacturer
Tsuishu manufacturers are traditional lacquerware artisans who layer red lacquer multiple times and carve the lacquer layers to create raised patterns.
Tsugaru Lacquerware Craftsman
Traditional craft artisan who uses lacquer and wood to create lacquerware employing unique techniques from the Tsugaru region.
Boxwood (Tsuge) Craftsman
Artisan who carves and finishes precision wooden products such as combs and ornaments by hand using high-grade boxwood material.
Horn Craftsman
Artisan who crafts combs, ornaments, and craft goods using animal horns and tusks as primary materials through techniques such as carving, shaping, and polishing.
Seal (ten) Engraver
Traditional craft occupation that designs scripts on stone, wood, ivory, etc., and carves seals using specialized engraving knives.