Bearbrick Karimoku Paorosa 400% Wood

The Bearbrick Karimoku Paorosa 400% in Wood is a collector object that represents the most materially honest and craft-forward collaboration in the Bearbrick format’s extensive history of high-profile partnerships, bringing together Medicom Toy’s legendary figure production authority with Karimoku, the Japanese furniture manufacturer that has been producing the highest quality domestic hardwood furniture in Japan since 1940 using the same painstaking craft approach and material reverence that makes their furniture among the most celebrated and enduring examples of Japanese woodworking excellence. The Paorosa wood designation refers to the specific hardwood species used in this figure’s production, a precious wood variety whose specific grain pattern, color tones, and material character create a surface on the Bearbrick silhouette that is genuinely unique to each individual figure produced from the natural material. The 400% scale gives the wood grain and material character maximum display impact, the larger format allowing Karimoku’s woodworking craft to communicate its full beauty and precision across the Bearbrick’s familiar and beloved sculptural form.Bearbrick Karimoku wood collaborations represent the most materially pure and craft-historically significant tier of the entire Bearbrick collector market, the natural wood production method creating objects that function simultaneously as collector toys, fine craft objects, and genuine expressions of Japanese woodworking tradition in a format that connects contemporary collecting culture to centuries of material reverence and artisan production philosophy. At one thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollars the Paorosa 400% reflects the genuine material value and craft investment of producing a Bearbrick from a precious hardwood rather than the standard ABS plastic, each figure being genuinely individual due to the natural material’s inherent variation. For collectors who appreciate Bearbrick at its most materially ambitious and culturally rooted in Japanese craft tradition, the Karimoku Paorosa is an irreplaceable acquisition.The Bearbrick Karimoku Paorosa 400% in Wood was released on August 1, 2021 with a retail price of $1,326.