Japanese Scopes

"S Series Collaboration" is a sleek and elegant handheld kaleidoscope collaboration by Japanese artists Tomoo Hosono and Motohiro Sato. The body is a brushed stainless steel cylinder and houses either a 2-mirror, 5-point OR 2-mirror, 6-point system. …

'World in a Tube' is a magical handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Chikako Ishida. A wonderfully simple, tubular design in delicate crystal clear glass, the body houses a 3-mirror system which is completely visible and tapered. The object end gr…

'Silent Night' is a beautiful handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Chikako Ishida. The scope body was created with 10 clear yet frost-textured stained glass panels making a lovely ten-sided cone shaped scope with a black felt bottom. The body hou…

"Circle" is a modern and mysterious little kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Tomoo Hosono. The body is a brushed stainless steel cylinder with a dry, end-lit, non-turning, internal object cell with a frosted glass background, and contains slices of...

'Happy Color - Yellow' is a delightful handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Kazuko Hayashi. The body was constructed of 4 bright yellow stained glass panels with fancy oxidized soldering. The body houses is a 2-mirror, 6-point system with an encl…

'Asanoha - Green' is a delightful handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Kazuko Hayashi. The body was constructed of 4 bright green stained glass panels with a traditional Japanese Asanoha pattern of overlapping geometric hexagons that mimic the lo…

'Jupiter II' is an "out of this world" handheld kaleidoscope collaboration by Japanese artists Yoshiko and Takeo Matsumoto. The body is made with a clear glass cylinder over a copper metal sleeve that has been heat treated to create an interesting...

"Midori" (Japanese for green) is a gorgeous handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artists Takeo & Yoshiko Matsumoto. This scope has a slumped glass body in pearly white with a textured rainbow sheen that houses a 2-mirror, 11-point system that produc…

"True Colors" are sweet little handheld kaleidoscopes by Japanese artist Hiroshi Wakabayashi. Available in a small or medium size, the body is made from a metal cylinder and features shimmery gold poly clay with embedded semi-precious gemstone accent…

"Morpho" is a magical little handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Hiroshi Wakabayashi. The body was made with a clear acrylic cylinder that has a delicately textured, metallic design on the inside with a brilliant blue butterfly on one side and t…

"Aquarium" is a dreamy handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Kikuyo Kataoka. The body is made with swirling, watery, blue stained glass panels that have an iridescent flash as you turn it in your hand, with oxidized solder work that is beautifully…

"Peridot" is a delightful handheld kaleidoscope by Japanese artist Ichiro Seino. The body is handmade in ceramic with a metallic flecked, shimmery black glaze, and announces, in gold, the word "Peridot" across the front. The non-turning, dry, black..…