Made-to-Order Production × 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.

42 jobs found.

Walking Stick Craftsman

Craftsman who designs, processes, and finishes wooden or metal walking sticks and canes. Handles everything from material selection to assembly, polishing, painting, and decoration.

Hanging Lantern Maker

Craftsman who fabricates, repairs, and restores traditional Japanese hanging lanterns and lighting fixtures used in shrines, temples, ryotei restaurants, and tea rooms using woodworking, metalworking, lacquering, and other techniques.

Hand Embroiderer

A specialized technical profession that manually applies decorative embroidery to fabric using a needle and thread.

Seal (ten) Engraver

Traditional craft occupation that designs scripts on stone, wood, ivory, etc., and carves seals using specialized engraving knives.

Rattan Chair Maker

Craftsman who uses rattan material to handle everything from chair frames, weaving, to finishing. Produces high-quality rattan chairs by hand, considering durability and aesthetics.

Body Glassblower (Glass Product Manufacturing)

A body glassblower is a master technician who uses a blowpipe to gather molten glass, blows into it, and shapes and finishes the product by hand.

Doll Body Maker

A traditional craft artisan specializing in creating the skeletal frame for doll bodies, base preparation, and attaching heads and limbs.

Noh Mask Maker

A traditional craft artisan who carves Noh masks used on the Noh stage from wood and finishes them with lacquer and coloring.

Violin Maker

Specialized profession that carves out each part such as the body, neck, and fingerboard of a violin using wood, assembles them, paints, and adjusts the acoustic properties.

Bashofu Weaver

Bashofu weavers hand-weave Bashofu fabric made from plant fibers of the banana family, a traditional craft occupation.