The Multifunctional Hachiman Buckets Are a Vibrant Way to Store in Style

Hachiman, a family-owned business located in the small riverside town of Gujo Hachiman, in Japan’s Gifu prefecture, has been reimagining mundane household objects for over 60 years, offering an unparalleled quality and thoughtfulness in execution. One such object is the multifunctional Hachiman Bucket – which comes in seven colors and three sizes – that’s able to support up to 330 pounds, a testament to the brand’s quality. A bucket built to last generations, not months, the Hachiman Bucket is now available in North America thanks to Chilewich.

Colorful, sturdy, and infinitely useful, the Hachiman Bucket is a testament to the quality of Japanese design. With an incredible load limit and a tight seal, the bucket is a perfect kitchen compost container, vessel for pet food, or a catchall for toys and games, to name a few. This typically utilitarian object can now come out of hiding with its colorful, ribbed design that not only offers lidded storage, it works as both a stool and a side table, inside or out.

An object intentionally designed for rugged use, the Hachiman Bucket is made of recyclable polypropylene, a thoughtful nod to the ultimate end cycle of all products. As conservation is revered in Japanese society, and recycling is a cultural norm, this offers an increased likelihood that they will actually be recycled, unlike recent discussions showing the opposite in the United States. This type of forethought must occur early in the design process and be built around the problem, not tacked on in a simple material use or singular feature.

These buckets are stackable, thanks to their ridges, and come in three sizes – the 1 Gallon Mini, 2.6 Gallon Large, and 5.3 Gallon Extra Large – ready to tackle any type of storage task. Hachiman also offers a complementary watering can in two sizes.

The Hachiman Bucket is incredibly useful for storing craft materials, the modern ribbed design stays cute and approachable throughout the decades. You can even create a color coded system for all your favorite items, keeping things organized and perhaps even a tiny bit sane in a place for making. Fiber arts are notoriously prone to visual mess, creating chaos quickly within a space.

Great for gardening, the bucket features a hole perfect for a hose. This removes the need to stand over a bucket while the water level rises slowly but steadily, reducing wrist stress and pain over time. Any good gardener knows that watering takes work, and Hachiman is ready to field those concerns with ease.

The ribbed top creates a perfect surface to set the bucket down, saving the bottom from getting dirty while also staying dry. The range of colors is expansive, ranging from reserved Black, White, New Grey, and Garden Green to bright pops of color like Multicolor, Mustard, and Navy.

To learn more about the Hachiman Bucket available in the United States exclusively from Chilewich, please visit chilewich.com.

Photography courtesy of Chilewhich and Hachiman.