PRESERVING IDENTITY.EXPANDING POSSIBILITY.

Protecting what is unique, expending what is possible.

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ARCHIVE0926 is a partner that protects each brand's unique identity and value while connecting it to new markets and possibilities.

Philosophy

The Essence Stays. The Reach Grows.

The Unchanging Essence

Just as multiplying any number by one leaves its value unchanged, a brand entering a new market must keep intact the philosophy, sensibility, and singular worldview it has held from the start.

Connection and Expansion

Rather than artificially reshaping a brand to fit a market, we understand and respect its value most deeply, and from there extend its path to new people, new cultures, and sustainable growth.

In-depth Understanding

Rather than hastily reshaping a brand to fit a market, every process begins with exploring and deeply understanding the unique aesthetics and story each brand holds.

Meticulous Curation

We carefully select brands, creators, and ideas whose value endures over time, and deliver them to consumers at home and abroad in the most authentic way.

Sustainable Growth

Unswayed by passing trends, we build a foundation through positioning and distinctive collaborations so that brands and partners can grow together indefinitely.

CURATED PORTFOLIO

Brands we archive, represent, and grow with.

Fragrance

hibi

FRAGRANCE THAT COLORS MY DAY

hibi is not simply a fragrance product but a small moment that makes everyday life more beautiful. A morning with a cup of coffee, an evening spent quietly with music or a book, or ten minutes of hibi's scent lingering in a busy day. These small moments become a pause in your day. hibi was born from the meeting of two traditional industries with a century of history, and the wish to create something new so that matches would not be forgotten. The precise match-making craft of Harima in Hyogo and the delicate incense-making of Awaji Island combine into a modern fragrance product: a sturdy stick that does not break, refined diffusion, and a natural scent.

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Tea

HIRAOKA SHOTEN

FROM TAMAKAWA, A SMALL MOUNTAIN TEA VILLAGE

Beyond making tea: carrying a region's terroir, its people, and skills accumulated over long years on to the next generation. HIRAOKA SHOTEN pours into a single cup the time of the Tamakawa tea village and the depth of Japanese tea. A tea merchant founded in 1956 in Tamakawa, a small tea-growing village on the upper Abe River in Shizuoka. Amid a terroir shaped by tea gardens spread along the hillsides and mist rising from the river, it has long worked with growers to preserve the delicate, gentle taste unique to Tamakawa tea. Today it runs its own tea fields and processing factory, handling every stage from cultivation and processing to selection and blending. At its center is Yuta Hiraoka, who holds the 10th dan in tea appraisal, the highest rank in Japanese tea assessment. Reading the subtle differences between regions and cultivars, he completes the balance of taste and aroma in each cup with long experience and a refined palate.

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Lifestyle

NISHIGUCHI KUTSUSHITA

MAKING YOUR DAY EXTRAORDINARY

Not socks made to stand out, but socks that make the day feel a little better the moment you put them on. That is what NISHIGUCHI KUTSUSHITA means by "making your day extraordinary". Built on the experience and craft of Japanese sock-making since 1950, it is a premium Japanese sock brand whose most important standard is hakuhito-omoi: care for the person who wears them. It chooses essence over flamboyance, and "good basics" that stay close for years over passing trends. From design and knitting method to the feel on the foot, every decision starts with the wearer. Behind it lies the Japanese spirit of monozukuri: understanding materials, accumulating skill, and making things to be loved eternally.

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Contemporary Tea

annon

EVERYTIME, EVERYWHERE, WITH ANNON

Instead of leaving tradition as something difficult, annon brings the best of tradition into everyday living. With a single cup of tea, annon slows the pace of the day for a moment and brings a calm, settled moment anytime, anywhere. A contemporary tea brand in which Hiraoka Shoten, rooted in Tamakawa, a small tea village in Shizuoka, reinterprets Japan's long tea culture for today's way of living. As its name suggests, it speaks of annon: a calm, peaceful time to pause within a busy day. The year's first harvest, ichibancha, is finely ground so the whole leaf can be enjoyed, and with nothing more than a stick and water, the taste and aroma of quality Japanese tea can be enjoyed simply, without elaborate utensils.

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