FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Takatori Ware
Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.
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Agano Ware
A tea kiln opened by Korean potters under the Hosokawa lords, light in the hand and marked by running glaze.
FukuokaArt & CraftsMunakata
Munakata Taisha Treasure Hall
Eighty thousand objects from a sacred island, all National Treasures - five centuries of state offerings left untouched.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Shikanoshima
Where the gold seal was found; a tied island whose very geography explains the ancient sea routes.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Bentwood Ware
Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.
Fukutsu
Tsuyazaki Dolls
Unglazed clay dolls, best known for a bird-shaped whistle; one workshop still keeps the moulds.
Fukuoka
Hakata Spinning Tops
Tops made for street performance, weighted so precisely they will spin on the tip of a sword.
FukuokaArt & CraftsŌkawa
Okawa Furniture
Timber came here by river and shipwrights' joinery turned into cabinetmaking - now Japan's largest furniture district.
Itoshima
Studios of Itoshima
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, formed by people who moved here for the coast.
Fukuoka
Hakata Weaving Workshops
Six thousand warp threads to a single sash; the density decides both the sound and the grip, so one hand oversees it all.
SagaArt & CraftsSaga
Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum
An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Arita Porcelain
Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Tozan Shrine
Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Kakiemon Kiln
Its milk-white body and sparing use of colour were copied across Europe and shaped Meissen's own style.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Imaemon Kiln
Hereditary enamellers to the Nabeshima lords, keeping a technique where ink drawn on the glaze burns away and leaves white.
SagaArt & CraftsImari
Okawachiyama, the Nabeshima Domain Kiln
To stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
SagaArt & CraftsImari
Iro-Nabeshima Porcelain
Made as presentation and gift ware, never for sale, so nothing was compromised; red, yellow and green are layered over underglaze blue, and even the underside and foot ring follow a fixed standard.
SagaArt & CraftsKaratsu
Karatsu Ware
Ranked third among tea wares after Raku and Hagi; its coarse clay and quick iron-drawn grasses were chosen for their plainness.
SagaArt & CraftsKaratsu
Karatsu Kunchi Floats
Floats built from hundreds of layers of paper finished in lacquer and gold - light, strong, and still hauled after two centuries.
Ureshino
Hizen Yoshida Ware
A district with no fixed house style, and lately one that works with outside designers rather than tradition.
SagaArt & CraftsKashima
Saga Nishiki Brocade
Gold-leafed paper slit into warp threads and woven with silk - said to have been conceived by a lord's wife studying her ceiling.
Kanzaki
Ozaki Clay Dolls
Said to descend from Mongol prisoners of the 13th-century invasions; its dove whistles died out and were revived.
Takeo
Yumino Dolls
Large, strongly coloured clay dolls in the Hakata manner, kept going by a single workshop and its moulds.