The studio · 舎
A small room
in Shinmachi.
oliama is not a campus. It is a room on the fourth floor at 742-4 Shinmachi, Osaka, with a kettle, a wall of paper, and one machine that hums. This page is about how that room works.
The lane below the studio, after last train
Why one engine
We tried many models. Then we kept one and learned it properly.
The studio began the way these things often do in Osaka: two desks, a shared kettle, and a rotating cast of rented models that dazzled for a week and disappointed by the month. Each new arrival meant relearning everything — its habits, its blind spots, its moods.
So we stopped rotating. We chose a single model, named the practice around it, and started keeping it the way a knife is kept: sharpened a little every morning, never lent to work it cannot do. The two hands came naturally — the room had always written software in the mornings and drawn in the afternoons. Kaku and Egaku are just those habits, formalised.
What this means for you is simple. The engine you use in December is the same one you used in March, only better at your kind of problem — because a person here noticed, corrected, and remembered.
Room
4th floor, 742-4 Shinmachi
Osaka 530-0015, Japan
Lights on
06:00 — 20:00
Every day, including weekends
Rule of the room
未完を恐れない
Don't fear the unfinished — fear the unexamined.
How the room works
Three habits, kept daily
Read the drafts
Every morning begins with yesterday's output. Whatever the engine produced overnight is read by a person before the door unlocks.
Correct by hand
Afternoons are for corrections — ink over ink, diff over diff. The engine learns from marked-up paper, not from applause.
Write it down
The day ends in the notebook. What the engine did well, where it lied, what we will feed it tomorrow. Then the lights go out at eight.
The neighbourhood
Shinmachi keeps us honest.
Shinmachi is a working part of Osaka — wholesalers opening shutters at dawn, print shops, a knife sharpener two doors down who has watched our experiment with polite scepticism. It is hard to be precious about your work on a street like this, and that is exactly why we are here.
Clients visiting from Tokyo or further usually arrive mid-morning. The coffee is decent, the chairs are honest, and the engine is always awake.
Plan a visit
Between buildings, Shinmachi