Water. Carry. Bond.
The name Jindai begins in the west of Tokyo, at a temple called Jindaiji.
The temple's founding is remembered as a love story.
A man loved a young woman. Those who opposed the match hid her away on an island in the middle of a lake.
The man prayed to the god of the water. The god sent a sacred turtle, which took him upon its back and carried him across.
They were joined; and the child born to them, in gratitude, founded the temple.
For thirteen hundred years, the water has brought people together.
After the founding legend told at Jindaiji.
Water. Carry. Bond.
The three things a bag is for are woven into this name from the very beginning. We are not borrowing the story. We are writing what comes next.
For thirteen hundred years, the water has not stopped.
Jindaiji is an old temple, said to have been founded in the year 733 (Tenpyō 5) by the monk Mankū Shōnin. Its name comes from Jinja Daiō, a god of water. Spring water has never stopped rising in and around its grounds. It is kneaded into the famous Jindaiji soba, and a natural hot spring rises nearby.
Jindai was born here, at the water's edge, beside Jindaiji in Chōfu, in the Tama area west of Tokyo. We make by hand, in Japan, and we sell first beside the water. We carry on this land's story of water in the things we make, day by day.
The tub, the pail, the stool: the Japanese bath has long been made of hinoki.
A wood long used for shrine buildings, too. It is strong, and it lasts.
The first pre-order: twelve numbered pieces, each made by hand.
Source: Jindaiji temple (jindaiji.or.jp), history and legend.