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Marie Kondo
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Marie Kondo
近藤 麻理恵

Marie Kondo in 2016
Born 9 October 1984 (age 34)

Tokyo, Japan
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality Japanese
Alma mater Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Occupation

Organizing consultant
author
Years active 1997–present
Known for KonMari method

Notable work The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Spouse(s)
Takumi Kawahara (m. 2012)
Children 2
Website konmari.com


Marie Kondo (近藤 麻理恵 Kondō Marie, born 9 October 1984[1]) is a Japanese organizing consultant and author.[2]

Kondo has written four books on organizing, which have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated from Japanese into languages including Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian,[3] French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and English.[2] In particular, her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2011) has been published in more than 30 countries.[4] It was a best-seller in Japan and in Europe, and was published in the United States in 2014.[2]

She was listed as one of Time's "100 most influential people" in 2015.[5]


Contents
1Background
2KonMari method
3Media appearances
4Personal life
5Publications
6References
7External links
Background[edit]

Kondo in 2015

Kondo says that she has been interested in organising since childhood.[4] In junior school, Kondo ran into the classroom to tidy upbookshelves while her classmates were playing in physical education class. Whenever there was nomination for class roles, she did not seek to be the class representative or the pet feeder. Instead, she yearned to be the bookshelf manager to continue to tidy up books. She said she experienced a breakthrough in organising one day, "I was obsessed with what I could throw away. One day, I had a kind of nervous breakdown and fainted. I was unconscious for two hours. When I came to, I heard a mysterious voice, like some god of tidying telling me to look at my things more closely. And I realised my mistake: I was only looking for things to throw out. What I should be doing is finding the things I want to keep. Identifying the things that make you happy: that is the work of tidying."[6]

She spent five years as an attendant maiden at a Shinto shrine.[6] She founded her organising consulting business when she was 19 and a sociology student at Tokyo Woman's Christian University.[7] In her senior year, she wrote a capstone thesis entitled "Tidying up as seen from the perspective of gender". [8]
KonMari method[edit]

Kondo's method of organising is known as the KonMari method, and consists of gathering together all of one's belongings, one category at a time, and then keeping only those things that "spark joy" (ときめく tokimeku, the word in Japanese, means "flutter, throb, palpitate"),[9] and choosing a place for everything from then on.[10][11]

Kondo says that her method is partly inspired by the Shinto religion.[12] Cleaning and organising things properly can be a spiritual practice in Shintoism, which is concerned with the energy or divine spirit of things (kami) and the right way to live (kannagara). "Treasuring what you have; treating the objects you own as not disposable, but valuable, no matter their actual monetary worth; and creating displays so you can value each individual object are all essentially Shinto ways of living." [13]
Media appearances[edit]

A two-part TV dramatisation was filmed in 2013 based on Kondo and her work, titled 人生がときめく片づけの魔法 (Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō).[14] She has lectured and made television appearances.[2][6] She released a series of videos teaching "the best way to fold for perfect appearance".[10]

On 1 January 2019, Netflix released a series called Tidying Up with Marie Kondo[15]. In the series, Kondo visits various American family homes full of clutter and guides the families in tidying up their houses through her KonMari method.

On 4 February 2019, Kondo appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, where she helped tidy up Stephen's items and thank his studio.[16]
Personal life[edit]

Kondo married Takumi Kawahara in 2012.[4][17] At the time they met, Kawahara was working in sales support and marketing at a corporation in Osaka. Once Kondo's career took off, he left his job to become her manager and, eventually, CEO of Konmari Media, LLC.[18] The couple have two children.[17][19]

After getting married she lived in Tokyo, and later moved to San Francisco. As of 2019, she and her family live in Los Angeles, California.[20]
Publications[edit]
Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō (人生がときめく片づけの魔法).
Tokyo: Sunmark Shuppan, 2011; ISBN 978-4-7631-3120-1 (in Japanese)
German translation. 2013; ISBN 978-3-499-62481-0.
English translation. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2014; ISBN 978-1607747307.
Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō 2 (人生がときめく片づけの魔法2). Tokyo: Sunmark Shuppan, 2012; ISBN 978-4-7631-3241-3.
Mainichi ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō (毎日がときめく片付けの魔法), Tokyo: Sunmark Shuppan, 2014; ISBN 978-4-7631-3352-6.
Irasuto de Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō = The Illustrated Guide to the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (イラストでときめく片付けの魔法）. Tokyo: Sunmark Shuppan, 2015; ISBN 978-4-7631-3427-1.
Manga de Yomu Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō. Tokyo: Sunmark Publishing, 2017;
English translation. The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: a magical story.New York: Ten Speed Press, 2017; ISBN 978-0-399-58053-6.
References[edit]

^ Stern, Claire (23 January 2016). "Who Is Marie Kondo? 7 Things You Might Not Know About the Japanese Decluttering Guru". InStyle. Time Inc. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
^ Jump up to:a b c d "Kissing Your Socks Goodbye: Home Organization Advice from Marie Kondo". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^ "Gramedia.com – Marie Kondo, "The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up" (Indonesian version)". Gramedia Indonesia – Online books. 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
^ Jump up to:a b c Maloney, Jennifer; Fujikawa, Megumi (26 February 2015). "Marie Kondo and the Cult of Tidying Up". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 March 2015 – via konmari.com.
^ Jamie Lee Curtis (2015). "Marie Kondo". Time Magazine. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
^ Jump up to:a b c "Marie Kondo is the maiden of mess". Theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^ Maguire, Katy (7 July 2016). "6 surprising things about Marie Kondo and her life-changing method". Well+Good LLC. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
^ Aihara, Hitoshi (13 May, 2015). "こんまりキレイ術の心は感謝　31カ国200万部超". Nikkan Sports. Retrieved 11 February, 2019.
^ "Japanese-English translation: tokimeku: Dictionary". kanjijapanese.com. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
^ Jump up to:a b "Japan's 'queen of clean' promotes benefits of a tidy home". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^ "How KonMari's phenomenal book can help put your house in order". Japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^ Demetriou, Danielle (16 January 2016). "Japan's decluttering guru says she is on a mission to 'organise the world'". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
^ Dilloway, Margaret (22 Jan 2019). "What White, Western Audiences Don't Understand About Marie Kondo's 'Tidying Up'". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 Jan 2019.
^ "人生がときめく片づけの魔法". ntv.co.jp. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
^ "5 Ways Marie Kondo Can Declutter Your Home And Help You Reach Your Financial Goals". Forbes.com. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
^ Colbert, Stephen (4 February 2019). "Taraji P. Henson, Matt Walsh, Marie Kondo". The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS.
^ Jump up to:a b Fujikawa, Megumi (9 August 2017). "Should You Kondo Your Kids?". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 August 2017. ...2-year-old Satsuki Younger sister Miko, 10 months, Ms. Kondo’s husband, Takumi Kawahara, 33, ...
^ https://www.eonline.com/news/1007829/how-an-obsession-with-organizing-built-an-empire-inside-marie-kondo-s-controversially-tidy-world
^ Tonya C. Snyder. The real reasons Marie Kondo’s life-changing magic doesn't work for parents. The Washington Post, 14 January 2016.
^ "As Marie Kondo gets her own Netflix show, can she help me tidy up?". iNews. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
External links[edit]
Look up kondo or tokimekuin Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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