About
Sumio Hamano

Sumio Hamano is one of Japan’s most famous architectural designers.

He is a professional registered architect of the highest attainable class in Japan.

Besides being a designer, he is many things including, mentor, educator, urban planner, writer, TV commentator, and martial arts expert.

Japanese bushido is the samurai spirit, the samurai motto, or the way the samurai would live their lives

From his youth Sumio trained and studied the spirit of the samurai.

He has even established his own original type of environmentalism based on bushido.

At present besides mainly being a professional architect, he tours all over Japan and the United States as a bushido motivational speaker.

He has garnered the approval of many people with his unique orthodox Japanese architectural designs.

His designs have been said to not only touch all five of our senses, but to go so far as to add a sixth sense, the human heart.

His ideas are designed based upon the surrounding environment not just the land that the design occupies but Sumio takes into account everything that surrounds the potential area.

Using this unique approach to architecture he is able to create an unexpected and an often seemingly inspired atmosphere.

Nature often creates obstacles for humans to overcome when developing.

Sumio looks at these obstacles as not a nature problem, but a human problem.

He then creatively and effectively designs something that will use the surrounding environment in its natural state to make something truly different.

Whether the request is for an architectural design or for advice, a custom and appropriate solution is given to each client.

This solution is not only based on Bushido but on skills and experiences Sumio has acquired through his life.

His experiences have created dilemmas in his life that ranged from difficult to impossible.

These experiences have also led him down a path to knowledge.

This knowledge includes physiognomy, physiographic, Qigong,
Feng Shui, REIKI, and the life energy ( ~Qui~ the silent power which all living things possess ) .

It is because of these experiences and knowledge that he is more than qualified to give advice.

His motivational speeches and business presentations are of such caliber that clients usually trust him and take Sumio’s words to heart.

As a result, his clients have more than a 98% success rate in their endeavor.

Sumio’s first visited the United States in his early thirties.

Since that time he has accumulated experience as a designer and producer in America.

Some of the areas that he has created within hotels in the U.S. include self-healing.

Other designs have been implemented into hospitals, welfare and educational facilities, spa, beauty salon, restaurant, residence and much more.

Designing these facilities abroad Sumio will usually focus on developing areas reflecting a strong Japanese style.

These oriental spaces will include a Japanese garden, the look and feel of authentic and traditional Japanese environments.

( ~sei~ stillness ) and ( ~wabi-sabi~ tastes for elegant simplicity )　are incorporated into these designs to give places an absolute peaceful and tranquil atmosphere that is all but impossible to find in our busy modern American lives.

Regardless of location, Sumio Hamano will create a place that one can truly feel comfortable in and rejuvenate your spirit.