We are living in the era of a big shift from the value system of attaching excessive importance to a material civilization to the sense of value of cherishing life. The world is about to transform from men’s theory of living to the women’s theory of living.

The base for our activities is study, practice, and publicizing the information of the art of the ecological diet, Tubu-Tubu Future Food. Tubu-Tubu Future Food is a diet in which you can enjoy cooking Japanese traditional food ingredients, zakkoku (traditional grains). These grains heighten the vitality of the body and the earth and awaken femininity following the rule of life, while you enjoy eating delicious food. We are teaching a new sense of value which suits the structure of life backed by practical lifestyle skills suggesting a 100 % plant-based, non-sugar, delicious food and sweets made of traditional grains and vegetables as the core.

There are more than 100 TubuTubu cooking instructors throughout Japan. The cooking lessons are usually held at their own houses.

This nationwide network of cooking schools offers people opportunities to learn how to cook traditional grains in healthy ways.

It also contributes women’s empowerment by helping those instructors, most of them are women, to run small business at home.

Traditional grains are nutritionally well-balanced. The native species can be cultivated in mountainous, cold or dry areas and does not deplete much of the soil fertility. In order for Japan (where the grain self supporting ratio is less than 30%) to survive it will take real power of passing down the “seeds” of delicious traditional grains. These grains do not require paddy fields or pesticides and are suited to the Japanese climate. In addition “the skills for cultivating grains” and “the techniques for diet” will also take real power and have to be learned and practiced. Today most of the vegetables and even rice became F1 hybrids, which cannot pass down their seeds and it is becoming impossible for us to grow crops without buying seeds every year. Taking this reality into consideration means the Japanese self-sufficiency rate is much lower. We can easily avoid the food crisis as well as the health crisis if each of us passes down the seeds of traditional grains together with the food culture. These grains can provide the main food supply for one year even in the mountains. And this is possible through our traditional grain periodical delivery service system.

We published “Vegetarian Yasai Cooking” (Vegetarian Vegetable Cooking)” (Ie no Hikari Kyokai) in 1991, “Mirai-shoku” (Future Food) in 1995, and more than 40 books such as “Mirai-shoku Tubu-Tubu Cooking” (Future Food Tubu-Tubu Cooking).

Atelier of Life is our base of living for Tubu-Tubu Food Designer Yumiko and her family. It is located in Oguni-cho in Yamagata prefecture.

In 1996 Yumiko and her family built a half owner built ecology house made with 100% domestic timber, which is three stories high and about 190 square yards. She named the house an “ecology house” and the field of 4.9 acres ”Atelier of Life” as a place for creating future diet and life.

The farm that we developed little by little spread to 30 acres on the west side and east side. We adopted non-tillage cultivation for our farm and we grow vegetables for ourselves. The large land on the east became a seven-color traditional grain farm so that we could publicly call it the Tubu-Tubu Farm.