Board game designer. Saashi is involved in the design of every game under his label—not only his self-published titles, but also the games he licenses to international publishers. An avid designer in school for fun, Saashi fell back into design 15 years later, after encountering a modern Eurogame in the early 2000s. At first, he started designing games to play with his wife, Takako Takarai, and soon began his publishing and sales journey with the establishment of Saashi & Saashi in 2015, designing a board game that had the feel of a modern Eurogame. In February 2022, he turned Saashi & Saashi into SAASHI-AND INC., becoming its CEO and president. With a love of freshly roasted black coffee and reading, Saashi has often spent time in his local independent coffee shop, letting his ideas pour onto paper. Most of his designs begin as ideas jotted down on a legal pad that he rearranges and polishes, sometimes over a second cup of coffee.
