Headline, February 17 2025/ PARENTS : ''' HOMES -MINDS- HOURS '''

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''' HOMES -MINDS- HOURS '''

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CLEARING CLUTTER FROM HOMES AND MINDS. Hideko Yamashita takes a philosophical approach to helping people tidy up.

Before Marie Kondo captured the world's attention with her exhortations to rid ourselves of items that did not '' spark joy,'' there was another Japanese guru of decluttering.

Her name is Hideko Yamashita. And while Ms. Yamashita,70, has never reached Ms. Kondo's level of fame, she is widely credited in Japan with spearheading the modern movement of decluttering our homes - or, as it has come to be called overseas, ''kondo-ing.''

The two women, born three decades apart in Tokyo, both preach the idea that households amass too much stuff. Letting go of unnecessary items and creating minimalist, tidier spaces, they argue, can enhance mental well-being.

Ms. Yamashita said she admired Ms Kondo, 40, for taking these ideas to the Western World. A spokeswoman for Ms. Kondo acknowledged in a statement that Ms. Yamashota had been a leading figure in the tidying trend for years, but said Ms. Kondo had established her own philosophies.

MORE THAN two decades ago, Ms. Yamashita began offering seminars in Japan on danshari, the Japanese art of decluttering. In 2009, her book '' The Tidying Up Method : Danshari '' published more than a year before Ms. Kondo's '' The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up '' hit shelves - propelled her to fame.

Ms. Yamashita hosts a weekly television show that is widely viewed in Japan, taking on some of the country's most maximalist homes. She also runs a school where she trains students - mostly women, middle age and older - on how to become professional decluttering experts.

When performing danshari consultations, Ms. Yamashita glides around her clients' homes in a stylish one-shoulder apron with a red sash. With her neatly styled chestnut bob and a warm, slightly crooked smile, the septuagenarian radiates energy.

Ms. Yamashita and Ms. Kondo, approach decluttering in different ways. In Ms. Kondos's books and Netflix series, she offers easy-to-follow techniques for organizing, wrapped in her signature cheer and positivity.

Keep items that make you happy and thank those that do not before tossing them away, she instructs.

Ms. Yamashita is more abstract, philosophical and probing - less approachable, converts of the Marie Kondo school argue. When sorting through what to keep or toss away, Ms. Yamashita pushes her clients to think about why they are attached to certain items, and to examine what overabundance and obsession do to their emotional states.

'' For me, danshari is not about tidying up, organizing or tossing away things that don't spark joy,'' Ms. Yamashita said, slurping soba noodles out of sesame broth at a restaurant in Tokyo.

'' It is about returning people to a state in which parting with things feels natural.''

'' When people's homes and minds get clogged up with too many things, they begin to fester, ''  she continued.

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