the late Yoshio Okiyama |
After the war, he learned how to make Secret Boxes from his predecessors. Ever since, he has made Secret Boxes only. There are traditional mechanisms, but he usually created new ones. When he created a Secret Box with 54 motions, people said, "we could see only 10 motion Secret Box in the old days." The old Secret Boxes were "one sided". But, he has created boxes with 2 sided motion, and raised the number of motions necessary to open. Now, he always plan even newer new ideas of how to open them. |
| PRODUCT | ITEM | INFORMATION |
 Secret Box (Kirichigaimasu) |
YO-6-1 | It has a device of YO-4. It's new type. It can be opened with 10 moves. created : 08/2000 size : 90x90x90 mm material : katura, lamine, old oak |
 Secret Box (Yabane) |
YO-6-2 | It has a device of YO-4. It's new type. It can be opened with 10
moves.(The mechanisms are same as "YO-6-1".) created : 08/2000 size : 90x90x90 mm material : katura, lamine, old oak |
  Unusual secret box 1 |
YO-1 | This is a new product that connects 2 secret boxes. You can see a band in the center. The left and the right boxes intertwine, move and open. You can also see the same mechanisms for traditional secret boxes on the side panel. |
 Twin Box |
YO-2 | I directly connected 2 secret boxes together. Thus I could
realize a new way to open them. You can unlock them when you make a gap between the two
boxes. On the surface, I used 2 kinds of Yosegi (Yabane and Kirichigaimasu). Both of the
mechanisms and Yosegi were popular. This box should be called "an art work ". materials dogwood of oak, ramin, katura measurements 178 x 89 x 89 mm |
 Unusual secret box 3 |
YO-3 | It's newer than YO-1 and YO-2, but the mechanism is more similar to traditional secret boxes. |
  Secret box (new trick inside) |
YO-4 | The appearance looks like a traditional box. On a traditional secret box you can find a small plate on top of a side plate. But you can't find the small plate on this new product. The side plate moves in itself, up, down, left and right. |
  Secret box (54) |
YO-5 | As you know, it's a traditional 54 moves secret box, but it moves more smoothly. |