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742-4 Shinmachi, Osaka 530-0015
Open daily 06:00–20:00
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Osaka node · open 06:00–20:00

書描 · Osaka creative model

An engine that writes code and draws.

oliama is a small Japanese studio keeping one careful engine with two hands — Kaku for code, Egaku for line. Built in Shinmachi, Osaka, tuned every morning at six.

Dark Japanese ink brush stroke on black washi paper
Studio practiceInk & logic, daily

01 / The engine

One model, kept the way a knife is kept — sharpened a little every day.

Most studios chase many models at once. We keep one. It lives on a machine in our Shinmachi room, and every weekday morning we sit with it: reading yesterday's drafts, correcting its hand, feeding it better material. The result is an engine that writes serviceable code and draws honest line work — not a spectacle, a tool.

Teams in Osaka and abroad rent time on it. Some use only the code hand. Some only the drawing hand. Most, eventually, use both.

How the model works

02 / Two hands

Kaku writes. Egaku draws.

Full specifications

HAND ONE

Oliama Kaku 書く

The code hand. Kaku drafts functions, refactors tired files, and argues politely about architecture. It prefers plain language instructions and returns code a senior would sign.

  • Drafting and refactoring across twelve languages
  • Architecture sketches before a single line
  • Test scaffolds written alongside, not after
Dark code editor with syntax-highlighted program text

HAND TWO

Oliama Egaku 描く

The drawing hand. Egaku renders clean vector line work — ink studies, interface mockups, architectural figures — with the restraint of a pencil that knows when to stop.

  • Ink and line-art studies as editable vectors
  • Interface compositions from rough briefs
  • Diagrams and figures with measured spacing
Quiet Japanese interior with shoji window facing a dark garden

03 / Working proofs

From this month's sketchbook

All works
kaku · draft 1187
-- sort a shelf of borrowed books
def shelve(books):
    return sorted(
        books,
        key=lambda b: b.readers
    )
Kaku · Code

shelf.py

A four-line sort, drafted and explained.

Egaku · Line

Enso, second pass

Two strokes; the model stopped early, correctly.

Close view of dark washi paper with chalk-like ink marks
Studio · Surface

Paper, before anything

The texture Egaku studies before it draws.

Dark walled yard between buildings in Osaka at dusk

04 / The room

Shinmachi, Osaka.
Lights on at six.

742-4 Shinmachi, Osaka 530-0015 — visits by appointment, any day between 06:00 and 20:00.

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