Discover custom wa-modern art panels in deep matte black, made with light-absorbing Fineshut SP and finished in gold or silver with traditional Japanese patterns such as Seigaiha, Shippou, and Asanoha.

We visited JAXA's Sagamihara Campus to see how Fineshut KIWAMI is helping a historic rooftop telescope cope with urban stray light, and how that work connects to Japan's JASMINE infrared satellite project.

Learn how we're helping automate logistics with the world's blackest AR Markers!

Fineshut KIWAMI and Musou Black Paint are suppressing stray light inside the visible-light cameras of Japanese astronomical telescopes, helping researchers observe faint objects like Mira variable stars and supernovae.

Musou Black Fabric KIWAMI just passed the Oddy Test — the gold standard for material safety in museums and archives. Here's how we tested it, what the results showed, and why it's now a top pick for exhibition and gallery display.

JAXA is using our infrared-light-absorbing IR Flock Sheet in a darkroom for testing satellite star trackers. Learn what a star tracker does, why absorbing near-infrared light matters, and why this first step is still a ground-based one.

Near-infrared light starts just beyond red, at about 750 nm. Its wavelength range, how it behaves, and where it is used, from Face ID and security cameras to LiDAR, seen through our near-infrared camera.